The American People Are the Target for Corporate Media Censorship

Hassan El-Najjar

...I have observed recently that US news media have been publishing news reports about NATO occupation forces killing scores of Taliban resistance fighters by air strikes on their camps or bases. I quickly alerted readers that it was impossible for Taliban fighters to have camps or bases in occupied Afghanistan, which is totally under the control of the US-led NATO occupation forces. However, the same daily news have continued, which have made no sense until today. In the following AP news report, the US-led NATO occupation forces admit for the first time that Taliban resistance fighters are in control of certain areas in southern Afghanistan. Now, the previous puzzling news reports are making sense finally. This means that the Taliban resistance fighters have been in control of these areas for weeks, since the first time news reports mentioned bombing Taliban camps, bases, or centers. We were not told about it. So what? Well, here we go again. The American people know very little about what's going on in all the wars America was dragged to in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The embedded US corporate media has been reduced to Third-World-level media, spreading only what the government wants the people to know....

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My disgust with the media

Eli Stephens, Left I on the News

I'm citing a Washington Post article, but really I could find this exact formulation from every single print and broadcast media outlet, at least in the U.S.: Early today, Israeli warplanes pounded Hezbollah's stronghold in south Beirut. This is so easy to read right past and just take for granted. You aren't being told that Israel bombed a Hezbollah headquarters, which they have done (and has been reported). You are being told that Israel is bombing an entire area of a city, because it is a "stronghold" of Hezbollah...

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