Polihead
And now, the daily dose of bashing American politics. Topic of today: the news fed to the American citizens. k5 is reporting that CNN has a transcript of Hans Blix’ report concerning Iraq. Comparing the CNN version to others, like the one from BBC, you quickly see that CNN omitted a bunch of quite important words. About 860 of them, to be specific. To be even more specific, the words where Hans Blix refutes the evidence provided by Colin Powell, and also the bit where Blix says that Iraq is complying with the UN resolution.
Back in school (those were the days) we were taught to always be critical to sources. Since I was critical to begin with, I got even more critical. When looking further into something, I always check several sources and compare what they give me.
And then we have this pearl of wisdom. Guess the headline of the CNN article covering the worldwide anti-war demonstrations? “World antiwar rallies delight Iraq!” It even features a picture of supposedly Iraqi men with the text “Iraqi men participate Saturday in a rally of support for Saddam,” thus implying that if you protest against war, you’re Saddam’s buddy.
Excuse me while I go vomit.
Why is it that media always paint a picture containing only two teams on the field? On one side we have Bush and his warmongering ilk, on the other side we have Saddam and his ilk, whatever they’re up to at the moment. Here we have two clearly defined sides: Bush, who wants war, and Saddam, who doesn’t.
The average media creature thus draw the conclusion that if you don’t want a war, you’re beer buddies with Saddam.
February 17th, 2003 at 17:31
On a tangential note; American media conveniently left out the part in Usama’s latest message to the world where he says he still (always has) thinks of Saddam as an infidel and thinks the Iraqi people should rise up against him.