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newthinking

(3,982 posts) Fri Feb 13, 2015, 12:17 AM Feb 2015

Democracy Now: Brian Williams Suspended, But Media's Real Scandal is the War Lies Spun Daily

Brian Williams Suspended for False Iraq Tale, But Media's Real Scandal is the War Lies Spun Daily

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Democracy Now: Brian Williams Suspended, But Media's Real Scandal is the War Lies Spun Daily (Original Post) newthinking Feb 2015 OP

passive hibbing Feb 2015 #1

Everyone knows about the Iraq lies. But they don't realize that is the *norm* of war reporting newthinking Feb 2015 #2

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On the night of the Iraq invasion, Brian Williams banner ad was "When Diplomacy Fails".... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2015 #3

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Brian Williams was not suspended for telling lies about Iraq Jack Rabbit Feb 2015 #4

I can't disagree with you. Yet even liberals continue to be blind to this fact newthinking Feb 2015 #12

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Are you saying Pres Obama lied about why that market was chosen? uppityperson Feb 2015 #10

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hibbing

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1. passive

Reply to newthinking (Original post)

Fri Feb 13, 2015, 01:09 AM

Feb 2015

Would love to see this get more play. Like someone posted on another thread about this matter, will Brian Williams be the only media personality to get fired for telling lies about the Iraq war?

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newthinking

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2. Everyone knows about the Iraq lies. But they don't realize that is the *norm* of war reporting

Reply to hibbing (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 13, 2015, 02:56 AM

Feb 2015

now.

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Spitfire of ATJ

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3. On the night of the Iraq invasion, Brian Williams banner ad was "When Diplomacy Fails"....

Reply to newthinking (Original post)

Fri Feb 13, 2015, 06:10 AM

Feb 2015

He repeated all of the lies as if they were facts and on election night '08 and '12 he looked like he was going to CRY because the Republican lost.

Brian Williams is one of those DANGEROUS types of Right Wingers. The stealthy type. Right wingers have a problem with REALITY so is it really a surprise to have another one remembering details that NEVER HAPPENED?

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Jack Rabbit

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4. Brian Williams was not suspended for telling lies about Iraq

Reply to newthinking (Original post)

Fri Feb 13, 2015, 02:16 PM

Feb 2015

Mr. Williams injected himself into the news (not a good thing to begin with) and, on top of that, the story turned out to be a fabrication.

The best thing to do is kill your television and get the news from more reliable sources on the internet. Broadcast journalism today is all FoxNews. Mr. Murdoch's outfit is only more blatant about what it does -- trolling the public for support for the political party that has been a tool of big business since 1854 -- but the truth is that NBC, CBS, ABC (a truly Mickey Mouse organization), CNN, etc., are all deliberately misinforming the public in the interest of war profiteers, major polluters and crooked Wall Street financiers, who support politicians committed to evolving toward corporate dictatorship regardless of an individual office seeker's party affiliation. Real democracy is limited to discussion about marriage equality and anti-discrimination measures. Giving the People any real control over the future is off the table.