Here is how the media helps Bush dupe America

[NNN0LHI]

MEDIA MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MOO305A.html

<snip>What will happen is front page US press reports of WMD’s being found. Then days latter, after careful inspection, a denial will be buried on page 10. Judith Miller, a reporter for the New York Times, has already written several Pentagon inspired front page stories on possible "discovered" chemical weapons. Let me quote her day after report on page ten in the April 28, 2003, New York Times. Judith Miller reports, "A military team has tentatively concluded that there are no chemical weapons at a site where American troops said they had found chemical agents and mobile labs. Earlier today, Lt. Col. Ted Martin of the 10th Cavalry said that one of a dozen 55 gallon drums in an open field had tested positive for cyco-sarin, a nerve agent, and a blister agent that could have been mustard gas. He said his soldiers had also found two mobile labs containing equipment for mixing chemicals…But in an interview tonight, Capt. Ryan Cutchin, the leader of mobile Exploitation Team Bravo, or MET Bravo, said that after surveying the site, near the Northern Iraqi town of Bayji, his team believed that earlier reports were wrong. ‘Our tests showed no positive hits at all. The mobile labs were definitely ‘not labs.’"(31)

The pattern is clear. A front page story on a WMD "find" in Iraq. Latter, a retraction similar to the one above buried in the paper. The overall effect on the American public has not yet been measured. But if 42% of the American people thought Iraq was involved in September l1th, then the current repeated front page WMD news stories will probably convince a majority of US citizens that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, even if they didn’t.

Even Judith Miller seems to be getting tired of her role as a stooge for the Pentagon. She, too, notices this page one/page ten pattern of reportage and comments: "This was the latest example of a recurring pattern in efforts to track down unconventional weapons in Iraq. Repeatly, early reports of discoveries of chemical and biological weapons come to naught after the mobile exploitation teams conduct test and evaluate earlier reports.(32)

Even though the New York Times has played a leading role in promoting front page WMD "discoveries," an editorial by Paul Krugman (also in the NYT’s) blames the "misinformation" on TV. Mr. Krugman argues, "One wonders whether most of the public will ever learn that the original case for war has turned out to be false. In fact, my guess is that most Americans believe that we have found WMD’s. Each potential find gets blaring coverage on TV; how many people catch the later announcement ---if it is ever announced----that it was a false alarm? It’s a pattern of misinformation…."(33)

Certainly this is not a new technique. An unknown German army colonel, named Adolf Hitler, developed the idea that if you repeat a lie hundreds of times on the mass media, the people will believe it. The Bush administration’s "pattern of misinformation" clearly operates in the same way.

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[48pan]

1. The media is reliably stupid...

They don't have a clue what they are doing (with a few exceptions).

[InvisibleBallots]

2. nope, the know exactly what they are doing

and they are very good at their job too

[hoosierblue]

3. The revolution will not be televised. n/t

[Octafish]

6. What Lincoln said...

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time."

From NN0LHI's article:

FOOLING THE SENATORS

On September 24, 2002, CIA head George Tenet briefed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the attempted Iraqi purchase of five hundred tons of "yellow cake" uranium for making atomic bombs. Just five tons can produce enough weapon-grade uranium for a bomb. Two days latter Colin Powell also briefed the Senators on Iraqi attempts to obtain uranium from Niger. The testimony from Tenet and Powell scared both Democratic and Republican Senators into passing a resolution overwhelmingly giving the President a Congressional mandate for a military assault on Iraq just two weeks latter. The only trouble was the Senators were fooled. The story was simply not true.

FOOLING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND SEYMOUR HERSH

President Bush cited the uranium deal in his January, 2003 State of the Union Message to the American People. Bush claimed he got information from the British Government. When the UN inspectors declared the documents "not authentic," Seymour Hersh, one of America’s last investigative reporters, got on the case and wrote an article for the New Yorker Magazine concerning the false A-bomb reports, dated March 31, 2003. Hersh interviewed an International Atomic Energy Agency senior official who told him "These documents are so bad that I cannot imagine that they came from a serious intelligence agency. It depresses me, given the low quality of the documents, that it was not stopped. At the level it reached (Tenet, Bush, Cheney, US Senators) I would have expected more checking."(13)

Hersh speculates that the forged documents were manufactured by M16 (British Intelligence) and accepted by the CIA uncritically. Hersh interviews a former high-level intelligence official who suggested "somebody deliberately let something false get in there…It could not have gotten into the system without the agency (CIA) being involved. Therefore it was an internal intention. Someone set someone up."(14)

The Senators too were feeling that they may have been "set up." On March 14, 2003, Senator Jay Rockefeller from West Virginia, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee asked Robert Mueller, the FBI Director to investigate the forged document. The Senator wrote to Mueller, "There is a possibility that the fabrication of these documents may be part of a larger deception campaign aimed at manipulating public opinion and foreign policy regarding Iraq." He also wants to know "why the intelligence community did not recognize the documents were fabricated."(15)

CONTINUED WARMONGERING...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MOO305A.html

BTW: A hearty welcome to DU, hoosierblue! My sister was born in Washington, Indiana.

[hoosierblue]

7. Thanks for the welcome.

Starting to feel at home already. B-)

[dave123williams]

4. Hitler was a Corporal, nothing more.

[Octafish]

5. Corporal

It's a typo: The Bush business agent in 1920s Germany was a corporal.

Regarding the article: Globalisation Research is great. That's exactly how perception is "shaped." More along those Orwellian psy-op lines from Consortiumnews...

Bush's 'Perception Management' Plan

By Robert Parry
November 18, 2004

George W. Bush has been criticized for disdaining fact in favor of faith in his own instincts. But he is savvy about the dangers that information can present to his authority over the government and the American people.

That is why the first priority of his second term has been the elimination of the few government sources of information that could challenge the images he wants to project to the public. Bush doesn’t want the State Department or the Central Intelligence Agency portraying his Iraq and other foreign policies as abject failures or reckless adventures.

So, by attacking these remaining pockets of analytical resistance, Bush is moving to ensure that his administration can keep much of the U.S. population seeing a near-empty cup as almost entirely full, a concept known in the intelligence world as “perception management.”

On a personal level, Bush appears to have found in his electoral victory a validation of his public-relations strategy of casting his foreign policy as a black-and-white war between good and evil. In this tough-talking approach, Bush has been helped immeasurably by the powerful conservative news media, ranging from AM talk radio to Fox News, from right-wing newspaper columnists to Internet bloggers.

Indeed, it is impossible to understand why Americans have grown so detached from reality without appreciating the combined impact of this conservative media – built over the past quarter century – and Bush’s personal insistence on loyalty over almost all other values. These two factors have made the United States a kind of ultimate test for the Orwellian intelligence theories of “perception management.”

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/111804.html