This week: PBS won’t be showing us the documentary Citizen Koch–for some very dubious reasons. Also: The New York Times points out that the U.S. role in supporting genocide in Guatemala was hardly discussed at the trial; the same goes for U.S. media coverage of that trial. And Donald Rumsfeld goes on Meet the Press to talk about accountability. No, it’s not what you think.
I, for one, would like to support the efforts of the filmmakers who produced Citizen Koch and would be interested in helping to fund their final project (albeit restored to the pre-PBS inspired edits and other changes.) How can we contribute to this and to get this work distributed widely?
Now if only PBS were free from corporate and Conservative Right Wingers who disrespect it even as they run most of it.
Re: Guatemala and the trial for genocide
It is business as usual when it comes to our media reporting the news where our government is implicated in genocides in other countries, or even in the U.S. In 1965, there was a coup in Indonesia (many suspected U.S. as an instigator) where close to one million people died. The military coup was to remove a socialist President. There was not a single mention of this huge event in the U.S. media, nor the fact that our ambassador was feeding the junta the names of the labor, and other factions that U.S. did not like. Our history is replete with our interventions in other countries affairs, fomenting various civil wars, and many time supplying the opposing countries with weapons. President Reagan was responsible for many deaths in the Central America, and he is not the only President who got involved in this nefarious actions.
Im all for reliving history.I study Washington,Lincoln,Hoover,Reagan,.Fascinating Im sure.but this week alone we have had more scandals hitting the windows(and more on the way)than i can remember since watergate.So lets try to keep our eye on the ball shall we?Reagan …Rumsfeld?Honestly right now i don’t give a damn.Next we will be talking about the DNA studies on Monica’s dress,and jimmy carter’s brother billy
One regrets FAIR’s bunching of several recent media gaffs into its relatively new talking-head format. The site has lost a lot in the process and made commenting on items here a formidable challenge. In this instance, David Gregory, the corporate media’s most visible fool, gets a free ride for his fawning interview of war criminal Donald Rumsfeld.
For those who are not familiar with the U.S. involvement is Guatemala, I strongly suggest to read this scholarly, very accurate report:
REAGAN ADMINISTRATION’S LINKS
TO GUATEMALA’S TERRORIST GOVERNMENT
by Allan Nairn
Covert Action Quarterly magazine, Summer 1989
This is not the only document, but for the starter it will do.