The Difficulty of Being an Informed American | 8 Jan 2009

It is the same propagandistic American print and TV media that have rationalized Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan based on seven years of lies and deception.

It is the same media that today provids only Israeli propaganda as "coverage" of the Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

It was the New York Times that spiked for one year the leaked information from the National Security Agency that the Bush regime, in violation of US law, was illegally spying on Americans without warrants.  The "liberal" New York Times agreed to suppress the story so that Bush would not face reelection under the cloud of his outlaw behavior.

Conservatives think the Washington Post is "liberal media" despite the fact that the  editorial and commentary pages are controlled  by neocons and their sympathizers.   ...

People who have access to television services that provide English language foreign broadcasts, such as Iran's Press TV,  Russia Today, or Al Jazeera, can get get news and insights from those parts of the world demonized by the US media.

The BBC World Service still reports facts while covering itself  by providing the views of the US, UK, and Israeli  governments.

Both the Asia Times and Israeli newspapers, such as Haaretz can be read online in English.  There are other such newspapers, and all of them provide information that Americans will never see in their own media.  Any American newspaper that was as truthful about the Israeli  government as Haaretz would be closed down.

The only US print source with which I am familiar in which some honest reporting can be found  on a regular basis is the McClatchy papers.

Americans addicted to print media must turn to alternative newspapers, which tend to be weekly or bi-weekly. However, the news and commentary provided are often superb....

I hope he feels better soon.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.