FAKE IRAQ CIVIL WAR
Hat tip to SISTERTOLDJA for pointing out this piece from the NYPOST.
JONATHAN PRYCE AS ELLIOT CARVER, BOND VILLAN FROM TOMORROW NEVER DIES
Blood sells news. You don't have to see a James Bond film to find a zealous media mogul who wants to see a war for revenue. It's an age old technique dating back to Hearst and Pulitzer firing up the Spanish American war for the purpose of making money through increased sales of newspapers.
If you are too lazy to read, TNT even has amovie version.
As my friend Intellectual Insurgent has speculated with me on whether or not history is linear or circular, this is more credence for my circular argument. Events do repeat themselves with core similarities but different players. In the original case, Hearst and Fletcher were forcing politicians to act by promoting a biased look at events. In this case, the liberal media is biasing the events to make Bush a failure in Iraq. Of course the hype increases attention to their media, so the advertisers pay more to be there. Elements are similar in media bias forcing a political outcome involving a contrived war.
The problem is while America fears a civil war in Iraq, people actually in Iraq are having a hard time finding it.
JONATHAN PRYCE AS ELLIOT CARVER, BOND VILLAN FROM TOMORROW NEVER DIES
Blood sells news. You don't have to see a James Bond film to find a zealous media mogul who wants to see a war for revenue. It's an age old technique dating back to Hearst and Pulitzer firing up the Spanish American war for the purpose of making money through increased sales of newspapers.
If you are too lazy to read, TNT even has a
As my friend Intellectual Insurgent has speculated with me on whether or not history is linear or circular, this is more credence for my circular argument. Events do repeat themselves with core similarities but different players. In the original case, Hearst and Fletcher were forcing politicians to act by promoting a biased look at events. In this case, the liberal media is biasing the events to make Bush a failure in Iraq. Of course the hype increases attention to their media, so the advertisers pay more to be there. Elements are similar in media bias forcing a political outcome involving a contrived war.
The problem is while America fears a civil war in Iraq, people actually in Iraq are having a hard time finding it.
posted by Possum at 09:18
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