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Media : Door de bommen Bush niet meer zien?
Foreign Press Foundation-Henk Ruyssenaars - 27.01.2003 16:23
Het is heel moeilijk momenteel "om door de bommen Bush nog te zien", maar de rol van de media in de oorlogshetze wordt nog steeds niet goed herkend. Op het oorlogspad zijn we mediaal verdwaald.
JOURNALISM AND COLLABORATION
by Henk Ruyssenaars*
One of the absolutely best journalists in the world, Robert Fisk, in The Independent (UK) - writes the following about the role of journalists in the present
propaganda-war concerning Iraq :
 http://argument.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=373102&host=6&dir=140
Quote : "Western journalists play a leading role in this propaganda. Take Eric
Schmitt in TheNew York Times a week ago. He wrote a story about America's
decision to "confront countries that sponsor terrorism". And his sources?
"Senior defence officials", "administration officials", "some American intelligence officials", "the officials", "officials", "military officials", "terrorist experts" and "defence officials". Why not just let the Pentagon
write its own reports in The New York Times?
But that is what is changing. More and more Americans - aware that their
President declined to serve his country in Vietnam - realise that their newspapers are lying to them and acting as a conduit for the US government alone.
More and more Britons* are tired of being told to go to war by their newspapers and television stations and politicians. Indeed, I'd guess that far more Britons are represented today by the policies of President Chirac of France than Prime Minister Blair of Britain." (end quote)
*And Europeans and other people in general ?
A poll by TIME/CNN* on Internet shows the following - for the US hairraising
- results :
Which country - it is asked - poses the greatest danger to world peace in
2003 ? Today the poll stands at this :
North Korea 7.5 %
Iraq 8.6 % The United States 83.9 %
Total Votes Cast: 298.443
*TIME/CNN-poll
But, according to world famous playwright Harold Pinter the United States is dangerous :
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=2739
The question of course should be asked : Are journalists in a sense killers too ?
See : http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19469
A clear example is right now the deadly way of operating of some media in
Venezuela, as described here in 'Le Monde Diplomatique' (in English) :
http://mondediplo.com/2002/08/10venezuela
The Washington Post seems to have found one of the reasons for collaborating
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/050701a.html
But, what about your own country ?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST !
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
 forpressfound@correx.every1.net
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
The Netherlands
fpf@chello.nl
* The Dutch author worked globally for 40 years as an independent journalist/foreign correspondent for many international printed and A/V-media. From Scandinavia to Vietnam, as correspondent in Latin America, (Chile '71-'74), and 10 years in North/South Africa and the Middle East. While being accredited as N-Africa & M-East correspondent - based in Tunisia for ten years, sometimes reporting for the BBC too... Because of journalistic research declared "Persona non Grata" five times by different governments in East and West.
 Website: http://argument.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=373102&host=6&dir=140
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