Free Press, or Just Good Advertisement?
A news story comming out of the LA Times (here: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-infowar30nov30,0,5638790.story?coll=la-home-headlines ) tells of how the US is secretly paying Iraqi news media to run stories that were written by the US military.
With other news of US military taking over some press organizations, this doesn't bode well. Why should the US even need to pay to get good stories in the paper?
Or better yet, isn't one of the goals of building a democracy is to make a free press, one which could watch the government (or in this case, the occupying force)?
On top of other scandels involving press manipulation (see Karen Ryan), it's another unfortunate sign that the Bush administration cares more about good press then actually doing good.
With other news of US military taking over some press organizations, this doesn't bode well. Why should the US even need to pay to get good stories in the paper?
Or better yet, isn't one of the goals of building a democracy is to make a free press, one which could watch the government (or in this case, the occupying force)?
On top of other scandels involving press manipulation (see Karen Ryan), it's another unfortunate sign that the Bush administration cares more about good press then actually doing good.
posted by SeanM at 6:44 PM
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