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the major media have always been own controlled by the people of wealth
and %uh
and therefore the
the
editorial positions
the choice of news items
has always been determined
by
those people who control the press
I think was AJ liebling the writers who said
freedom of the press belongs to whoever owns the press
and the
back in in the
in the early part of the twentieth century upton sinclair wrote a book called
the brass check
the brass check
was something used a house of prostitution
paris
and he was talking about the press as prostitutes the press the selling out for money
the press has it
well in fact at that very time talk about a press being pro war
no the hearst newspapers and the pulitzer
papers
revved up the country for war with Spain
exactly
world war one again
the press
played up the German atrocities some of them turned out to be false
the Lusitania
has been sunk a harmless passenger ship later turns out was carrying
war munitions
and that
playing up the atrocities of the germans
not saying anything about the British empire
and that's been going on
%uh today what we see is
in this
when the war started
in Afghanistan
to call it a war is is actually a misnomer
I mean this isn't a war between to equal parties the united states and Afghanistan
Afghanistan the helpless miserable country and the united states bombs Afghanistan and
it's called a war
what happens then is that
executives in
of CNN send upwards to the report is amendment and I've seen
you know this isn't
it was leaked by
people in CNN and and
so I were to the report as saying
let's not report civilian casualties in Afghanistan
we were bombing and killing civilians they were not to be reported
and CNN began festooning
the stand of the anchors at CNN
with American flags and
the media
there have been going along with war for a very long time as the rest of the the rest
of the world as I understand it
you know that Vietnam was in a sense different kinds of reporters were investigating the
truth in their editors and publishers
at least in blocking for publishing from publishing it but the editorial and publishing and of
publishers positions at least early in the war were world's different than what we're
reading in the in from the %uh
reporters at the new York times and time magazine so for that's a question that report
in the early nineteen sixty eight
the boston globe
did a survey of
I think
something like
twenty nine
major American dailies
not one of them
called for the united states to get out of Vietnam
I'm particularly conscious of this in nineteen sixty seven I wrote a book called
Vietnam the logic of withdrawal and that and and and %uh
suggesting strongly 0:03:50.209,0:03:52.739 no major daily
in nineteen sixty eight
supported the idea of getting out of Vietnam 0:03:58.949,0:04:03.299 %uh up end and you know this this really hasn't changed
but the rest of the world sees it 'cause she's television
through television
she's a very different war than American city and box and CNN and CBS-
they see the civilian casualties they see the bombs falling and that
and so on so forth so
you a real disconnect I think between the way we think that were virtuous
country see the war
every other countries as see the war
it's interesting you may remember that to me
both in the Afghan war and
this war in Iraq
to the united states bombed the offices of Al-Jazeera
television network they did not want
that network
to
be able to show pictures of
the results of our bombing 0:04:49.069,0:04:54.429 I mean is this is the kind of thing that happens in a totalitarian state in the Soviet union
nazi germany the shutdown newspapers television stations they want to control everything
that's the way the united states government has behaved
in these wars