why do people say cnn ,nbs,cbs are all antiwar propaganda when it is the truth.?
480802
That's a pretty odd definition of "truth" you have there. If you really believe that everything you see on television is the truth I suggest that you turn off the television and start reading so books or some accounts done by people who are actually at the places where the news happens.\n\nI've got some news for you ... all the major news networks ARE biased and they all slant the truth to suit their own purposes. For example, do you think they're more likely to get viewers with a story about how well things are going in Iraq or by telling you that the whole place is freaked out? The answer is obvious, they actually did get you to watch by telling you a slanted truth.\n\nOf course there's problems in Iraq, there were WAY MORE problems in the beginning of the USA than there are in Iraq and if you think that there is no good news at all you've only managed to be brain-washed enough to become a life long customer of the crap coming out of the major media.
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The propoganda tale was patently false:\n\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,956255,00.html\n\nhttp://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0504-05.htm
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OMG NO!!!! Mainstream media, be they normally associated as left or right, are a bunch of non informed idiots. \n\nLiars! They are ALL liars! :) They spin it just like the next politician. \n\nPeople please, do not rely on one news source. There are three sides to every story; you side, my side and the truth. \n\nthe moral is, read as much as you can about any given situation from different sources, and draw your own conclusion.\n\n**Believe 1% of what your mother tells you and nothing anyone else tells you.
1027000
The media organizations are run by very rich, powerful people. They have agendas like everyone else. Yours and mine are to get educated, get good jobs, make a decent living, etc.  The media's job is to present a story that sells you on consuming their version of the news. That way, the more that people watch or read their news, the more money they make. And if they report from an angle ( conservative, liberal, American /Patriotic ) they get attention and hopefully more advertising dollars. Picture this, Mr. Jones runs the XYZ TV Network. He also has invested in the stock of corporations that make guns, fighter jets and ammunition - it only makes him wealthier, and therefore more powerful, if his stock increases in value because the US government is buying weaponry from the companies he has invested in.  The media, by no means whatsoever, is against President Bush. If anything, they cater to him, giving his side of the story when he was barking about weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein. Well, there were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam is in captivity. So, why is the media not screaming at him about ending the war as his "goals" of eliminating wmd's and Hussein were accomplished?  The popular media, for the most part, is run by conservative thinkers who want a good story first, and the truth later.
31088
The "truth" is very subjective and usually a lot more complicated than the media pundits and headline readers would lead you to believe.  Print media in general does a better job of being thorough.  Your best bet is to get your news from multiple sources and critically evaluate as best you can what you are being told and by whom.
1149239
The problem here is that there is a lot of information being tossed around and not a whole lot of truth. It takes time to do a good thorough investigation and the news media hates to wait. There is also the problem of some Iraqis trying to pin crimes on the US military to make them look bad. The whole truth needs to be revealed before any judgments are made.
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Every government involved in a war needs right propaganda to keep the funds flowing in, to bring fresh recruits, and to diminish the public outcry about the atrocities of war. Everywhere the soldiers are trained to kill, not to love, so there are no harmless wars, every one know that, but no one knows how to end all wars and keep the huge war industries alive and profitable. To the statesmen the truth is less important than the desired impact of their war propaganda. So far the Al Qaeda tapes worked best. Thank you for noticing the magic of their appearance.
542400
really simple! because the media is a tool utilized as any other tool to serve the purposes of political powers ! it has never been about the truth, he who wants the truth must seek it the hard way not be fed by propaganda machines
297807
Why do people think our media is so liberal?  It is a matter of relativity.  When you put yourself WAY out on the right, you're going to believe we have a liberal media.  Those on the extreme left think we have a conservative media...and you're both wrong.  I have listened to conservative talk radio who say this day after day, but they never do anything but bash anybody who doesn't agree with them without presenting anything.  No facts, no credible guests...it drives me crazy to listen to them.  If they would just present some facts or some documentation or some references I might be able to decide FOR MYSELF if they have a valid opinion.  I do however believe it does swing a bit to the right and to answer the questions, our president is dead wrong on a lot of things...the worst being Iraq.  He is a traitor to the American people and he needs to take some of those pseudo-Christian values and apply them to the homosexual, poor, African-American, and most of all to the Iraq people.
8567
There is no "truth" in politics.  It's all perseption.  Those that listen to the media are foolishly adopting a tainted idea of the world and what is going on in it.  People like to be led, that's why so many followed Hitler.  People don't want to have to think for themselves, and so they don't.  I'm glad you look for answers.
1082100
I'm going to have to politely disagree on the grounds that the mainstream media, in Bush's corner, has deceived most everyone, in the US at least. Which isn't going to last forever, might I add.\n\nMountains of evidence supports that the "war on terror" is just a big farce!\n\nIf you have time, you may want to listen to some alternative views on what's actually going on:
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This is absolutely true in some cases.  The liberal side is very good at it as well.  Public schools are a good example of disinformation centers.  Please read "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx, and then take a good look at how your local schools operate.  Listen to C-span for a bit.  Then you'll understand just how right you are.  Great observation.
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You ask the question with the premise that main-stream media isn't corporate controlled by a few individuals with specific interests.  The media isn't "regurgitating" propoganda, it is creating it wholesale.  Our media conglomerates were quietly de-regulated in 1981 and can no longer be considered "independent" news sources.  Couple this with the fact that, by and large, popular press has ALWAYS been about selling newspapers, ad space, etc.\n\nIf you want a real clue as to what is happening you must unfortunately do your own research, which means cracking a real 1st-tier history book.
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The problem with the intellectually dishonest is that they will seek every other explanation than the plain truth and fact.\n\nThe fact is like in America, where an occupation will not be tolerated, Iraqis and Arabs, with their complexities, will not tolerate an occupation by the USA. If American troops remain in Iraq for another 100 years the result will still be the same. The truth is often much simpler than fiction. PERIOD.
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That is liberal propaganda for you.  Can't prove a damn thing just throw out an assertion and see if it sticks.  This is what makes liberals the greatest assassins of character and dangerous.  Who was it that said how a lie can get around the world before the truth can be revealed?  \n\nOf course, we all know the Iraq war is an extension of the first Gulf War and Saddam violated at least 15 UN resolutions and Saddam was not contained like the liberals say he was.  He was shooting missles at our planes before we went in which was a direct violation of the agreement after we kicked their ass the first time.  \n\nAfter 9/11 President Bush said if you harbour a terrorist or sponsor a terrorist, you're a terrorist and we're coming after you.  How fast we forget 9/11 and how Saddam was paying terrorist and supporting their dirty deeds.  What bothers me is SADDAM HUSSEIN IS A TERRORIST and no one makes this a point.  No politicians or media calls Saddam a terrorist which he is.  It is the reason we went in.  Could you imagine if his sons had survived our attack?  They were worse than he is!\n\nTerrorists have learned how this countries military can win wars but will be held back by our politicians and how Vietnam was lost politically.  This is why terrorists terrorize!  They are not trying to win militarily but politically.  Liberals calling the war illegal is partisan politics for Democrats being out of power.  Liberals put their party above being an American.  Traitors!  Just ask Joe Leiberman.
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YEs we are and some of the answers prove that point. For instance, ignorant and brainwashed people who are too lazy t oinvestigate and discover truth accept only the official government story like planes flew into the Twin Towers or that Israli mossad story that people are blowing themselves up in Israel and trucks.\n\nLosssers don't realize nor have the menatality to figure out that  the TT's were a controled demolition because it is easier adn more simple for them to accept the offcial story than to see the truth before their eyes,\n\nThe same people fail to read media news outside the Americas  to find that  the bodies inside a truck bombing are sometimes already dead or the true stories written in many media outside  the USA that Israel coerced mentally retarded Palistinian children to wear bomb jackets so that they could blame it on the palistinians . Most of their media on such things have been exposed as set up . We find also in othr reports that at military checkpoints in Iraq  that Iragi farmers have been set up and killed . Once ariving at the checkpoint one watermellon famer  had his entire truck inspected for alledged bombs and when he took off to his deatination he noticed the truck seemed heavier. The check point officers told him he hads to report to the nearest police station for a final inspection. Once he realized he looked in is truck and under the watermellon he was now carrying a large load of explosives buried in his watermellon which became evident they wer radio controlled. He then noticed in the distance that he was being followed by which he believed those who would detonate the explosives by radio control some distance away,\n\n This is an everyday event in Irag and Israle by Isreal in order to make the world believe that the Palistinians and Irag and now Iran are truely attacking them whene in reality they are nothing  more than black ops operations by Israels Mossad which is the equivelent to the American CIA.\n\nNot to mentionthe amount of brain dead Americans who believe the remote controled planes were actually enough to bring three towers down  in the exact mode and especially one that was nerv hit by a plane came down in the exact same manner dispite no fires. Bread dead Americans can't see that this was a black ops to cause America to be incensed and attack Irag for Israel. Most Americans can not see that it is always Israel that is beating the drums of war and that this war is for Israel not America. Too stupid to see this fact they send their children off to die and fight for a foreign country that is nothing more than the middle east largest terrorist faction who are all too willing to send Americas people into war to die for their hatred of all those not Israli around them.\n\nMost are too stupid to see that criminal elements are raping their constitution and stealing elections which bennifit  only Israel.\n\nYes, Americans are brainwashed, listen to some of their ignorant answers!
539557
The media is owned by liberals and there agenda is to change America into a socialist country, so they only show what would help their cause, The big wigs that own the news media are Democratic liberals, they also own all of the newspaper media so that's why the newspapers are slanted also. So most of the time you can't believe what you see on TV or read in the papers, you have to remember there is probably another side to the story, the side they don't want you to see, and you witnessed this process so be where. Thanks for telling us.