MEDIA DECAY

by Malik Isasis























Malcolm X once said, “You can't drive a knife into a man's back nine inches, pull it out six inches, and call it progress.” Bush has destroyed Iraq, killing 600,000 people, ruined the economy, the infrastructure, and is stealing the country’s resources. If 90 people die of violence in one particular day instead of the average a 100 a day, this is reported as progress. Never mind that the violence moved north, where 500 people died in one suicide bombing.

In spite of the proliferation of unimaginable violence in Iraq; in spite of the puppet government’s failings; and in spite of the blood that now fertilizes Iraq’s soil, the media has helped Bush in dispensing the fairytale of progress.

The punditry and news readers has used the word “progress” as a tool to influence the oft-spineless Democratic Party to continue support the occupation of Iraq because somehow the Democratic Party’s cognitive dissonance associates the corporate media’s and Bush’s propaganda as the voice of the American people. And they fall for it every time because of their sickness of needing approval from the Republicans. I submit Evidence A:

After short-circuiting consideration of votes on some bipartisan proposals on Iraq before the August break, senior Democrats now say they are willing to rethink their push to establish a withdrawal deadline of next spring if doing so will attract the 60 Senate votes needed to prevail.

Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, said, "If we have to make the spring part a goal, rather than something that is binding, and if that is able to produce some additional votes to get us over the filibuster, my own inclination would be to consider that."

The collapse of the fourth estate is a symptom of a much greater sickness in American democracy.

The corporate media reports facts as being fluid. If Republicans say that the world is flat and the Democrats say it is round, the media will report both sides and say, “You decide.” Media consolidation has all but done away with advocacy media and because there is the corporatisation of the media, the media no longer acts in the interests of the people, but in the interest of corporations. We have eased into fascism as fat and happy as a baby.

Lies Most Foul

Bush and his Syndicate have destroyed Iraq, and now he claims there is progress. He says the same about New Orleans too. So he expects the Iraqi people to be grateful because he deployed more American troops to kill them.

He destroyed Iraq. What progress?

The hype over General Petraues’ report is just that, it will be neither positive or negative, giving both the Republicans and the Democrats enough bullshit to justify staying the occupation.

Bush, in our name has and continues to committ heinous crimes against humanity. Ultimately, the chickens will come home to roost and the media will ask why without connecting their own bloody hands to the crime scene.

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