[Media-watch] The Great Media Breakdown

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The Great Media Breakdown by: Todd Gitlin
The press admits it fell for the administration's line on weapons of mass destruction. But the media's failure goes far beyond Iraq.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2146

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Yasser Arafat, 1929-2004 by: electronicintifada.net
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2145

Our Not-So-Free Press  by: Nicholas D. Kristof 
Paging China! Help us! Urge the U.S. government to respect freedom of the press!
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2144

Die Now, Vote Later by: Naomi Klein
P. Diddy [Sean John Combs, a.k.a. Puff Daddy] announced on the weekend that his “Vote or Die” campaign will live on. The hip hop mogul’s voter registration drive during the U.S. presidential elections was, he said, merely “phase one, step one for us to get people engaged.”
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2143

Counting the casualties by: Economist
A statistically based study claims that many more Iraqis have died in the conflict than previous estimates indicated
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2142

Bush Pick for Legal Chief Bedevils Foes by: Jim Lobe (IPS)
Wednesday's appointment by U.S. President George W Bush of his long-time friend, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, as the next attorney general puts Democrats and civil-rights activists in something of a quandary.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2141

U.S. Will Lose More by 'Victory' by: Dahr Jamail (IPS)
A military victory for U.S. forces in Fallujah seems set to lead to a huge political loss for the U.S.-backed interim Iraqi government. 
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2140

Secret Report on Testimony from Torture Victims Triggers Debate by: Gustavo González (IPS)
Sexual abuse, including rape using animals, burns from cigarettes, welding torches and acid, ripping off fingernails with pliers, immersion in water, cooking oil or petroleum, and being forced to watch other detainees, often family members, being tortured.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2139

Satan hides in a hospital by: Pepe Escobar
Everything one needed to know about the true, unspinnable foreign policy of the second George W Bush administration is represented by the "capture" of the first strategic target in the assault on Fallujah: the general hospital, on the left bank of the Euphrates, now totally cut off from the city. According to the Bush administration world view, this is the house where Satan lives. 
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2138

Pessimism over latest attempts to restart peace talks in Sri Lanka by: K. Ratnayake
A high-level Norwegian delegation led by Foreign Minister Jan Petersen arrived in Sri Lanka this week as part of international efforts to save the country’s tottering peace process. Petersen, his deputy Vidar Helgessen and special envoy Erick Solheim will hold a series of talks with Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga, V. Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and other political figures over the next few days.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2137

US assault leaves Fallujah in ruins and unknown numbers dead by: James Cogan
The US assault on Fallujah is a criminal and barbaric operation. The descriptions of the thrust through Fallujah’s northern suburbs make clear the city is being destroyed, and its poorly-armed defenders slaughtered, by 10,000 American soldiers over whom all moral constraints have been lifted.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=2136


 

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