John Pilger: Why are wars not being reported honestly?

[Ghost Dog]

10 December 2010

In the US Army manual on counterinsurgency, the American commander General David Petraeus describes Afghanistan as a "war of perception... conducted continuously using the news media". What really matters is not so much the day-to-day battles against the Taliban as the way the adventure is sold in America where "the media directly influence the attitude of key audiences". Reading this, I was reminded of the Venezuelan general who led a coup against the democratic government in 2002. "We had a secret weapon," he boasted. "We had the media, especially TV. You got to have the media."

/Read on: http://www.johnpilger.com/articles/why-are-wars-not-being-reported-honestly


... Defer (by way of emphasis) to Judi Lynn's thread recently posted here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x575436 (but employing a more 'respectable' link?)