Where’s the truth, and how can you find it?: The US Corporate Media are Essentially Propaganda Organs of the US Government

By Dave Lindorff

            Are the American corporate media largely propaganda organs, or news organizations?

            Here are a few points to consider, and then you the reader can decide. Check out how one should objectively answer these questions below, and then check how the US corporate media generally answer them:

1.  If ISIS or Al Qaeda deliberately attacks a civilian venue as in Paris, killing dozens of civilians indiscriminately, is it terrorism?

           Objective answer:  Yes

           US media answer: Yes

2.  If the US deliberately attacks a civilian venue as in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing dozens of civilians indiscriminately, is it terrorism?

           Objective answer:  Yes

           US media answer: No

3.  If the Chinese government takes control of a tiny island claimed by another nation, expands it, and puts a military installation on it, is it an example of aggression, a violation of international law, and a provocation?

           Objective answer: Yes

           US media answer: Yes

4.  If the US government takes control and then refuses to relinquish a portion of a tiny

    island like Cuba, expands it and puts a military installation on it (as it has done for  

    decades in the case of Guantanamo Bay on the island of Cuba, is it an example of

    aggression, a violation of international law, and a provocation?

           Objective answer: Yes

           US media answer: No

5.  If the leader of a party that wins a national election by a landslide is not herself elected, but announces that she will in fact be making all the important decisions for the newly elected government, as Suu Ky just did in Myanmar, is it an example of undemocratic behavior, or caudillismo?

            Objective answer: Yes

           US Media answer: No

6.  If the leader of a party steps down as president but then insists on acting as the real authority on important issues even though someone else (his brother) is elected president, as Fidel Castro has done in Cuba, is this an example of undemocratic behavior, or caudillismo? 

           Objective answer: Yes

           US media answer: Yes

7.   If a foreign country places missiles pointed at another nation on the territory of a country adjacent to the target country, as the USSR once did in Cuba with respect to the US, is that a threat to the target country?

           Objective answer:  Yes

           US media answer:  Yes

8.  If the US places missiles in Poland and points them at Russia, as the US has done, is this objectively a threat to Russia? 

            Objective answer: Yes

            US media answer: No…

For the rest of this article by DAVE LINDORFF in ThisCantBeHappening!, the new independent, uncompromised, five-time Project Censored award-winning online alternative news site, please go to: http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/2915