A ‘Worthless and Whiny’ Attack on a Genuine Journalistic Hero
The Washington Post was one of the major newspapers to attack Gary Webb for his revelations about the CIA-backed Contras and the crack epidemic. It’s 2014, and they’re still at it.
Asking Kerry Questions–but Which Ones?
John Kerry appeared on all of the Sunday talkshows. But he was mostly not asked about the case for war with Syria. Instead, the questioning was overwhelmingly concerned with Barack Obama’s decision to seek congressional approval for an attack on Syria.
Debunking the Debunkers of October Surprise
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from investigative reporter Robert Parry’s new book, America’s Stolen Narrative. One of the book’s storylines examines corporate media’s role in squelching investigation into whether Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign in 1980 went behind President Jimmy Carter’s back to contact Iranian officials then holding 52 Americans hostage, a controversy dubbed the […]
More on CNN’s Tea Party
The New York Times reported today (9/13/11) on the controversy, citing FAIR: But the CNN debate on Monday was the first event hosted jointly by a major news organization and a Tea Party group. And their partnership left some questioning whether the network had gone too far in reaching for centrist credibility. “Is there really […]
From Lie to Official History, via ‘Simple Repetition’
Consortium News Robert Parry (8/13/09) is citing media-promoted “‘deathers‘ who claim that President Barack Obama’s healthcare plan would promote euthanasia,” along with how the U.S. “population was persuaded that Iraq was some lethal threat” and “fear-mongering about Iraq somehow sending small remote-controlled airplanes across the Atlantic” as strong arguments against “hopeful slogans that ‘the truth […]
Iraq: ‘Supreme’ War Crime, or Simply ‘Unnecessary’?
As Barack Obama and his pliant media pundits are “talking up the achievements of the six-year occupation,” Consortium News‘ Robert Parry (7/1/09) is writing of the “public celebrations by Iraqis marking the American pullout from Iraq’s cities.” Parry’s look back the last six years’ reality clearly recalls how, “relying on false intelligence and laughable legal […]
Their Election Fraud versus Ours
Robert Parry of Consortium News (6/15/09) gives hearing to a “strong case” to “undercut the widespread media assumption” of electoral fraud in Iran. But, true or not, “the rush to the ‘fraud’ judgment among much of the U.S. news media is shaping the political realities” and posing that “Ahmadinejad’s ‘theft’ of the election proves that […]
As ‘Truth-Tellers’ Are ‘Controversialized,’ Others Rise
“Amid all the recent negatives in the worlds of intelligence and journalism,” Consortium News‘ Robert Parry (6/2/09) has spotted “one encouraging development”: “the recognition of common ground between two beleaguered groups, honest U.S. intelligence analysts and honest American journalists, two groups that previously had been on opposite sides of the secrecy divide.” The strangeness of […]
Media Still Crushing on Old Flame Colin Powell
Robert Parry (Consortium News, 5/25/09) thinks that “there is no one, it seems, that the U.S. mainstream news media loves more than Colin Powell,” and as proof offers “Powell’s disingenuous response” to Bob Schieffer’s May 24 CBS Face the Nation “question about the ex-secretary of state’s knowledge regarding ‘enhanced interrogation techniques,’ which the International Committee […]
NYT: Ex-Prisoners ‘Return’ to Terrorism Never Charged
Remembering all too well how the New York Times “helped sell the Iraq War with a bogus story about aluminum tubes for nuclear centrifuges and withheld evidence of illegal spying on Americans for more than a year,” Consortium News editor Robert Parry (5/21/09) tells how the paper “is again mishandling a sensitive story in a […]
Media Silence on Pol ‘Implicitly Endorsing’ Inquisition
Quoting Sen. Lindsey Graham’s statement at a May 13 Senate hearing that “one of the reasons these techniques have been used for about 500 years is that they work,” Robert Parry (Consortium News, 5/16/09) explains that this is “implicitly endorsing the Spanish Inquisition’s brutal treatment of Jews, Muslims, Protestants and other alleged heretics from the […]
The Sham That Is ‘Objective’ Corporate Journalism
In a Consortium News rejoinder (4/30/09) to how “mainstream U.S. news media often laments the decline of objective journalism, pointing disapprovingly at the more subjective news that comes from the Internet or from ideological programming,” Robert Parry writes that one could argue that the U.S. mainstream press has inflicted the severest damage to the concept […]
On WaPo’s ‘Remarkable Class Solidarity’
Wondering at the “remarkable class solidarity” displayed by U.S. elitists, Robert Parry (Consortium News, 3/22/09) hypothesizes that “this may help explain why the Washington Post‘s editorial writers penned three editorials last week decrying the populist outrage over the AIG bonuses“: The first editorial on March 17, entitled “Bonus Blowback,” purported to share the public’s outrage […]
NYT: The Hague Strictly for Other Presidents
Consortium News‘ Robert Parry (3/5/09) uses New York Times do-gooder Nicholas Kristof as an example of blatant corporate media hypocrisy: Kristof–like many of his American colleagues–is applauding the International Criminal Court’s arrest order against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for his role in the Darfur conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives…. By […]
The Time-Honored Anti-Democratic Tradition
“Though seemingly forgotten by most TV talking heads,” it’s still fresh in Robert Parry’s mind (Consortium News, 2/9/09) how “it was only three years ago, when the Republicans had control of both the White House and Congress—and ‘filibuster‘ was a dirty word”: It was usually coupled with “obstructionist” amid demands that any of George W. […]
