US Media Promote Salvadoran Army Disinformation
The daily barrage of army and government disinformation has become a key component of the eight-year civil war in El Salvador.
The State Department Versus US Reporters in El Salvador
On May 5, 1988, the US Embassy in El Salvador published a collection of articles and leaflets in its Daily Press Digest under the heading “Leftist Propaganda in the US.” Included in the digest was a piece by freelancer Chris Norton, which described the plight of Salvadoran refugees returning from Honduras, and an article on […]
KAL 007 and Iran Air 655
The day after a Soviet interceptor plane blew up a Korean passenger jet, a New York Times editorial was unequivocal: “There is no conceivable excuse for any nation shooting down a harmless airliner.” Confronted with the sudden reality of a similar action by the U.S. government, the New York Times inverted every standard invoked with righteous indignation five years earlier.
Fear & Loathing at the Democratic Convention
By the end of the Democratic Convention, media cliches about the campaign had outpaced peaches as Georgia’s leading export. Through dint of repetition, the most dubious claims became truisms. If there was a chorus that resounded in Atlanta’s Omni Coliseum even louder that Neil Diamond’s “Coming to America,” it was the media’s unanimous refrain about […]
Nicaragua’s Drug Connection Exposed as Hoax
The media showed little interest when subcommittee chairman Hughes recently disclosed he had new evidence that the entire Sandinista connection was a US intelligence fabrication
