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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Saturday, September 25, 2004 ::

World Media Crisis

If you think we've got it bad with RatherGate and the rest of the pretentious, blow-dryed media icons, spend some time with the European media--you'll be longing for the good old days of 'biased' American network news.

German media unable to make distinction between democracy and dictatorship via David's MedienKritik:

"Isn’t this what we have been saying all along? This is shocking stuff folks, plain and simple. How can we believe anything coming from a media that “barely draws distinctions between democracy and dictatorship?” How can we trust a media that reports not as an objective body, but as an extension of its government? How can we trust a media that fails to adequately provide Germans with even the most basic information as to why the US and England acted the way that they did? And how can we trust a media that portrays Saddam Hussein’s reign of tyranny, war, torture and mass-murder on a grand scale as significantly better than the new Iraq’s difficult first steps towards democracy? The answer is: We can’t!

Well, at least the Germans appear to be catching on. The French, on the other hand are hopeless. No Pasaran quotes Le Monde, (Aljazeera on the Seine) on Allawi's address to congress:

"Ayad Allawi, head of the interim Iraqi government, behaved as an electoral agent of George W. Bush's Thursday Septrember 23, in Washington. Before the Congress, then during a press conference in the White House, and in a television interview, he lauded the American president, he repeated all the Republicans' arguments to justify the war, and he accused the media of "giving oxygen to the terrorists" by exaggerrating the importance of the insurrection.

Mr Allawi's visit was nothing other than an episode in the presidential campaign."

The French really are clueless--in fact, I think their moving into negative-clue territory.

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