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I was listening to the Last Word again last night. An interview with Nick Berg's father, who is now openly talking about his opposition to the presence of American troops in Iraq and the war in general.
The jist of the conversation was basically that when his son was beheaded the media were all over him like flies, looking for his reaction to it etc...
He agreed to do an interview with one of the big network news station but only if they agreed to give him an opportunity to voice his objection to the war at the end. They cut this from the interview.
His point was that the media is utterly biased in relation to the war in the US, allowing few if any dissenting voices.
Of course, it goes deeper than that and it is not only America where we're seeing this trend. We're relatively lucky in Ireland in this regard. Australia suffers terribly from this problem...mainly due to Rupert Murdock owning the vast majority of its newspapers.
You can read more about this and propoganda in journalism in [broken link removed] chapter from John Pilger's book Hidden Agendas.
The jist of the conversation was basically that when his son was beheaded the media were all over him like flies, looking for his reaction to it etc...
He agreed to do an interview with one of the big network news station but only if they agreed to give him an opportunity to voice his objection to the war at the end. They cut this from the interview.
His point was that the media is utterly biased in relation to the war in the US, allowing few if any dissenting voices.
Of course, it goes deeper than that and it is not only America where we're seeing this trend. We're relatively lucky in Ireland in this regard. Australia suffers terribly from this problem...mainly due to Rupert Murdock owning the vast majority of its newspapers.
You can read more about this and propoganda in journalism in [broken link removed] chapter from John Pilger's book Hidden Agendas.