By mis-framing the question.<\/p>\n
Has anyone explained to Raddatz that, even to impersonate a journalist with any degree of conviction, you do not simply parrot what your government’s State Department says?<\/p>\n
Robert Parry at Consortium News isn’t buying<\/a> Raddatz’s put-on:<\/p>\n “Raddatz\u2019s favorable reference to the\u00a0State Department accusing the Syrian and Russian governments of war crimes further suggests a stunning lack of self-awareness, a blindness to America\u2019s own guilt in that regard. How can any American journalist\u00a0put on such blinders regarding even recent U.S. war crimes, including the illegal invasion of Iraq that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis?”<\/p>\n I love the picture of Raddatz that Common Dreams uses in its reprint. She’s wearing one of the six or so trademark expressions of our television “news reporters.”\u00a0 This one says, “I’M CONCERNED.” That certain selective concern that manifests when the networks want to help the U.S. government leap into another catastrophic military misadventure.<\/p>\n Our corporate-owned “news” media, Parry writes, “with its deep-seated biases and inability to deal with complexity, has become such a driving force for wider wars and even a threat to the future of the planet.” Damn straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By mis-framing the question. Has anyone explained to Raddatz that, even to impersonate a journalist with any degree of conviction, you do not simply parrot what your government’s State Department says? Robert Parry at Consortium News isn’t buying Raddatz’s put-on: … Continue reading