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Showing They 'Learned Nothing' From Iraq, Corporate Media Help Beat War Drums for Trump Attack on Syria

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Showing They 'Learned Nothing' From Iraq, Corporate Media Help Beat War Drums for Trump Attack on Syria

Jake Johnson, staff writer

With America's major corporate cable outlets—particularly so-called liberal networks like MSNBC—continuing to uncritically provide generals and lawmakers a massive platform to beat the drums of war as President Donald Trump inches closer to launching a military attack on Syria, critics have concluded that the U.S. media has clearly learned nothing from the crucial role it played in cheerleading for the Bush administration's catastrophic invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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A great song from 1965.

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I only have access to one day-time MSM news outlet, CNN, although use of the term news is generous – they rarely have their eye on the ball and seem to largely be unaware there is a ball. But, I can’t say that I see a lot of defense contractors/warmongers advertising there.

Makes me wonder whether they are getting “grants” or “gifts” or other forms of revenue from those folks that gives the warmongers the leverage to force them to beat the drums of war, just like the dark money in politics. If so, disclosures are in order.

If not, then WTF? It largely does not compute. Perhaps, from their view it’s the “cost” of “access” to the people that feed them the pablum and doublespeak they repeat on air, which is the only form of “investigative” reporting they seem capable of. Even Christiane Amanpour, whom I once held in some regard, is now reduced to some meaningless “social” reporting about love life around the world, totally unrelated to and beneath the quality of reporting that she once did.

It’s a sad state of affairs.

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So now we know.

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Yes, I agree. The question for me is, “Why?”

Deep Throat’s advice of following the money seems the most likely answer, but somehow I think it’s something else – something systemic now, a metastasized cancer in the fourth estate.

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Showing They ‘Learned Nothing’ Since Korea …

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When will they ever learn? I guess that if the recorded history is to be believed they won’t. I just wish the fools who prosecute the battles were the ones fighting them. It is beyond the ken of rational beings.

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I am puzzled by this post. AIPAC which is the American Israeli lobby owns NO media, none. In fact, ownership of all media is well documented and it is easy to see what corporations or governments own all media, just google it.

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Please check out this short video of Tucker Carlson on Fox News Tonight. It was broadcast
Monday evening. “Why is Washington United behind a war in Syria”.

I think you will be surprised that he is actually telling the truth. And I hear that he will be on again tonight, 4-11-2018 at 8:30 ET with guest, Glenn Greenwald to discuss this very issue. Check it out.
It shouldn’t matter if it’s on Fox, we should join forces with whoever is against war and wants to share the truth with the American people.

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Now would be a good time to re-release it and play it at least once an hour, 24/7!

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“Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace,
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will be as one…”

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Oh, they learned something.

They learned that their cowardice and complicity never comes with consequences

Thus déjà vu all over again

And again

And again …

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Thank you! John’s words of wisdom still echo through the Universe! Humanity’s evolutionary peak!

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LOL.

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Eve of destruction! I would hope I am wrong, but even though this song was recorded in 1965, it could not be more relevant than in April 2018! Thanks.

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I actually agree with a talking head on Fox News. My head is spinning and may, in fact, fall off.

Of course, occasionally conservatives go back to their roots as believers in a republic that concentrates on taking care of its own citizens instead of trying to impose an empire on other countries. It wouldn’t surprise me to see Tucker Carlson walk all of this criticism of a war in Syria back at some point, and rejoin the world of “serious journalism.”

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They learned nothing? On the contrary, they learned how to make egregious and endless war profits.

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#24

Followed closely by this one.

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Looks like the Trump Tower Moscow deal has been put on hold temporarily. The American people are too busy to be bothered opposing war on Syria. Out of sight and out of mind, the majority of distracted Americans don’t see war with Syria as a threat to themselves.

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