Showing posts with label Media Submits to Government. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
New study documents media's servitude to government - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

A newly released study from students at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government provides the latest evidence of how thoroughly devoted the American establishment media is to amplifying and serving (rather than checking) government officials. This new study examines how waterboarding has been discussed by America's four largest newspapers over the past 100 years, and finds that the technique, almost invariably, was unequivocally referred to as "torture" -- until the U.S. Government began openly using it and insisting that it was not torture, at which time these newspapers obediently ceased describing it that way.
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