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Zionism and the Media


I. Introduction
II. Zionist Owners and CEOs of Media Conglomerates and Media Companies
III. Journalists: Zionist, Conservative, and Dumb
IV. Zionist Media Organizations
V. Zionists Continue Their Attack on America's Freedom of Speech
VI. Mossad and the Media - Israel's Disinformation Network
VII. Studies of Pro-Israel Media Bias in Newspapers



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GRAHAM: "The Jewish stranglehold on the media has got to be broken or 
this country's going down the drain."

NIXON: "You believe that?"

GRAHAM: "Yes, sir."

NIXON: "Oh boy. So do I. I can't ever say that but I do believe it."

- Religious leader Billy Graham and President Richard Nixon Exchange 
captured on tape.  




Part of the Zionists' control of this country's policies toward Israel 
comes through their extensive influence on the American and world 
media. The main reason for this is the strong presence of Jewish owners 
in the media and their presence in the editorial rooms as writers and 
editors that gives Zionists such influence. In addition, when one word 
in a media outlet is said publically against Israel, the Zionists are 
quick to organize a boycott of that newspaper, radio station, TV 
station or movie corporation calling them anti-Semitic (i.e. the movie, 
"The Passion of Christ") and unfairly trying to conjur up all the 
images that they've kept in the public mind with that term - what one 
writer calls the use of the "holocaust syndrome."




Here is a sample of the bias Palestinians face in our media: 
On February 25, 2005, the Los Angeles Times website edition headline 
read: "Palestinian Suicide Bomber Shatters Calm of Late." The article 
goes on to state that this bomber "shattered a month-long period of 
relative calm." 
The author is referring to the ceasefire between Israel and Palestine 
agreed to on February 8, 2005 and the "relative" calm before and after 
it was agreed to. 
There are two issues here: 1) who has been breaking the "calm," and 2) 
whose "calm" are we talking about?" 
Issue #1: Who has been breaking the "calm"? 
- Since the ceasefire on February 8th until February 25th - the 
bombing, Israeli military and illegal settlers have killed eight 
Palestinians, two of them children. 
- Since the previous Palestinian suicide bomber on November 1, 2004 in 
which Israelis lost three lives, Israeli military and illegal settlers 
have killed 170 Palestinian men, women, and children; injured and 
maimed 379 Palestinian men, women, and children; have held 8,000 
Palestinians ? 300 of them children - in prison where they are 
routinely abused; confiscated hundreds of acres of Palestinian land; 
expanded the illegal Apartheid wall; expanded the illegal settlements; 
demolished hundreds of Palestinian homes and orchards; continued the 
ruination of the Palestinian economy with checkpoints and curfews until 
70% of the Palestinian people are unemployed and living in abject 
poverty, etc., etc. 
Issue #2: Whose "calm" are we talking about?  
Surely, after reading the above, not the Palestinians! 
The article might better be titled "Palestinians Retaliate for 
Israel's Terrorist Actions" You will never see a headline like that in 
the mainstream American media, no matter how much it is deserved. I 
guarantee it! 
Issue #3: Who did the suicide bomber attack? 
This subject was not even touched in the article by the L.A. Times. 
The Palestinian bomber attacked an Israeli combat unit that had taken 
part in numerous brutal invasions in civilian Palestinian 
neighborhoods. They had killed and mutilated numerous Palestinian men, 
women, and children. In the Palestinian attack no Israeli civilians 
were hurt. 
When all this was brought up to an editor on the Los Angeles Times 
foreign desk by Alison Weir, a noted journalist and author of the 
excellent website "If Americans Knew", the Los Angeles Times editor 
just hung up on her. 
Another Example - Jeffrey Blankfort Tells This Story 
"Back in 1982, I was able to place an Israeli soldier, a reservist, 
who refused to serve in Lebanon on the biggest radio talk show in San 
Francisco. He told the truth about the Lebanon war, that the 
Palestinians were not shelling Lebanon, and in the second hour of the 
program which was broadcasted to a national audience, someone, with a 
strong accent, called and asked 'who is responsible for putting this 
communist on the air?' The talk show host said that he was?. Very soon 
afterward, that talk show host who was the most popular radio 
programmer in San Francisco, was replaced by a Zionist who is there to 
this day (2006) and who is such a Zionist that every year, when they 
have an Israeli Day celebration in San Francisco, he is the master of 
ceremonies. On the airwaves, on the major networks, you will find 
either among the owners or the more important decision making 
positions, people who are clearly Zionists." 
 


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II. Zionist Owners and CEOs of Media Conglomerates and Media Companies
Freeze Frame the U.S. Media - mid 2002 
CEOs and Directors of companies change as often as Boards of Directors 
vote. But if we could "freeze frame" the CEOs of the largest U.S. Media 
companies in mid 2002 (the link below "Who Rules America?" updates this 
information to Nov. 2004), we would find that ten Jewish American men 
ran the vast majority of U.S. television networks and other media 
companies including movies, radio, and publishing at that time. Not 
much has changed today.
 

 CEO  Media Company  Ranking  TV Networks, Movie Companies & 
Publishers 
Gerald Levin AOL Time Warner Largest media conglomerate in the U.S. 
HBO, TNT, TBS, CNN, TCM, Warner Brothers, Time Inc. 
Michael Eisner Walt Disney Company  2nd largest media conglomerate 
ABC, ESPN, A&E, Lifetime, Miramax Films, Caravan Pictyures, Touchstone 
Pictures 
Summer Redstone Viacom Inc. 3rd largest media conglomerate CBS, 
Paramount, MTV, Nickelodeon, Showtime, Country Music Television, 
Nashville Network Cable, Infinity Broadcasting (radio), Pocket Books, 
Free Press, Schribner, Simon & Schuster 
Edgar Bronfman, Sr

Edgar Bronfman, Jr. Vivendi Universal  4th largest media conglomerate 
Universal Studios, USA Networks, Houghton Mifflin Publishers 
Robert Murdoch Murdoch's News Corporation 5th largest media 
conglomerate Fox Television Network, 20th Century Fox Films, Fox 2000, 
New York Post, TV Guide 
Robert Perelman New World Entertainment Premier independent TV program 
producer in the US  
David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg DreamWorks SKG   


All these and other media conglomerates have directors of their 
subsidiaries Warner Bros., Barry Meyer, Chair and CEO; CNN/US, Walter 
Isaacson; Walt Disney Studies, Joseph Roth; Caravan Pictures, Robert 
Birnbaum; Miramax Films, Robert & Harvey Weinstein; ESPN, Steven 
Bornstein; CBS, Melvin Karmazin; New World Entertainment, Ronald 
Perelman; Peter Chernin is the president and CEO of Fox Group; Peter 
Roth under Chernin is president of Fox Entertainment. New York Times 
and the Boston Globe, Arthur Sulzberger, publisher; Wall Street 
Journal, Kann; US World and News Report, The Atlantic, and the NY Daily 
News, Mortimer Zuckerman owns all three and is Editor-in-Chief of his 
US News and World Report.

Today we should add Brian Roberts the CEO of Comcast, the largest TV 
cable network in America; Howard Stringer, the CEO of Sony of America; 
Ivan Seidenburg the CEO of Verizon, the largest American wireless phone 
company; Cheryl Halpern, Chairperson of the Corporation of Public 
Broadcasting. All Jewish. And the latter an especially rabid Zionist.



Newsflashes ? August 2006 The newspapers are reporting that the Los 
Angeles Times is up for sale. They have received three separate letters 
of intent to buy. All three of the prospective buyers are Jewish 
billionaires. I bet Israel will get great coverage is any of them buy! 
And the beat goes on. It Happens! Another Zionist Major Owner - April 
2007 Chicago billionaire Sam Zell just bought the Tribune Company, the 
nation's third-largest newspaper chain and one of its largest 
conglomerations of television stations. This includes the Chicago 
Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and other newspapers plus 23 
TV stations. Zell is a major contributor to AIPAC and strong supporter 
of Israel. He funds the Zell Entrepreneurship Program in Israel an 
advanced college program for Israelis that culminates in a 6-12 month 
internship at corporations affiliated with Zell and other corporations 
in the United States.

September 16, 2006 Khalid Amayreh a longtime reporter for al-jazeera.
net/English writes on his blogspot (umkahlil.blogspot.com) that pro-
Israel editors are seeking to influence Al-jazeera International 
English Satellite TV and turn it into a more western TV station that is 
?fairer? to Israel. It seems we are about to loose the only truly Arab 
voice in the international media to Zionists.



The following article breaks down in detail, the extensive Jewish 
presence in the media. Even though it was written by the National 
Alliance, a neo-nazi, white supremacist group in this country, the 
article is exceptional in its research on Jewish presence in the 
American media and so I am including it on this website. Please ignore 
all the white supremist nonsense in the beginning and skip down and 
start at the section titled "Electronic News and Entertainment Media". 
The article was written at the end of 2004 and therefore the names are 
current only for that year.

"Who Rules America? The Alien Grip on our News and Entertainment Media 
Must be Broken," by the research staff of Vanguard Books 


Saban: Zionist Billionaire at Work in the media 
Haim Saban an Egyptian born Israeli, Zionist Jew, a strong supporter 
of Israel who lives in the United States and who made his billions in 
the media business (FOX) continues his reach into the media. In the 
September 5, 2004 issue of the N.Y. Times, Saban is quoted at saying, 
"I'm a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel." 

- In 2003 he bought a German media conglomerate of T.V. networks and a 
German film library, Kirch Media.

- In 2006, Saban bought Univision Communications, the largest Spanish 
broadcasting television company in the US for USD 12.3 billion. 
Univision Communications owns Univision and TeleFutura television 
stations which together constitutes an 80 percent chunk of the fastest 
growing television market in the United States. It also owns the 
largest Spanish-language radio network in the US with 69 radio 
stations.

To quote Grant F. Smith's article Israel Lobby Initiates Hispanic 
Strategy "Univision producers now looking up through the chain of 
command toward the new owners will undoubtedly begin tapping Spanish 
speaking 'scholars' from Brookings (Zionist propaganda 'think tank' ? 
see Lobbying section), as well as the package of Israeli diplomats and 
Middle East analysts pushed by AIPAC's new Hispanic division (see AIPAC 
in Lobbying section)."
- Saban also owns partial control of the Bezeq Corporation in Israel 
and 24% of Channel 2, Keshet, in Israel. 

We can be sure our Spanish speaking American audience will receive a 
steady pro-Israel message.
 



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III. Journalists: Zionist, Conservative, and Dumb
Along with Zionist CEOs and owners of media conglomerates and media 
companies just discussed, there are the journalists in newspapers, 
magazines, on-line, on the radio, and on television who amplify the pro-
Israeli bias throughout the U.S. media.

These journalists are divided into three categories: Zionists - true 
believers in the biblical right to a Zionist nation on the Palestinian 
land, conservatives who believe in the righteousness of western 
civilization and America's and Israel's leading place in it, and lastly 
journalists who are just dumb or speaking in a more civilized manner, 
uninformed about Zionism who mouth pro-Israeli statements like "every 
country has the right to self-defense" without having any idea of what 
is really going on in the Middle East. Below is a partial list of these 
characters - mainly the Zionists - with a few examples of the others.

Zionist Journalists
 

Wolf Blitzer - currently a CNN Reporter; previous employee of AIPAC; 
former journalist for the Jerusalem Post 
Max Boot - editor of Wall Street Journal; contributing editor to 
Weekly Standard (neo-con); on Council on Foreign Affairs
Alan Dershowitz - lawyer; commentator; recently disgraced himself with 
his incredibly inaccurate book, A Case for Israel
David Frum - contributing editor to "National Review Online" and 
"Weekly Standard"; co-authored, An End to Evil with Richard Perle
Frank Gaffney, Jr. - columnist for the Washington Times and a 
contributor to Defense News and Investor's Business Daily. He is a 
contributing editor to National Review Online, WorldNetDaily.com, and 
JewishWorldReview.com. He is also President of the Center for Security 
Policy, a Zionist/neocon "think tank."
Jeffrey Goldberg - staff writer for New Yorker, freelance for other 
papers, citizen of Israel..was once a prison guard there
Jonah Goldberg - National Review Online, Editor-at-large

David Horowitz - editor-in-chief of the Zionist "Front Page Magazine"; 
President of Center for Study of Popular Culture
Jeff Jacoby - columnist for the Boston Globe and Jewish World Review

Donald Kagan - Professor of ancient history; father of Frederick & 
Robert Kagan; co-authored book with W. Kristol & R. Kagan; neo-con
Frederick W. Kagan - associate professior of military history at U.S. 
Military Academy
Robert Kagan - author; world affairs columnist for Washington Post; 
contributing editor for New Republic; neo-con
Marvin Kalb - founding director of Joan Shorenstein Center at Harvard 
- a supposed expert on the Middle East; previously diplomatic 
correspondent for NBC and CBS news; of Russian-Jewish origin
Ted Koppel - ABC Nightline reporter

Irving Kristol - born 1920; one of the founders of the neo-
conservative movement; father of William Kristol (cited below). Among 
other things Irving founded The National Interest in 1985 a prominent 
bi-monthly international affairs journal mainly directed by Zionist 
Jews. It is now funded by Conrad Black, who owns the Jerusalem Post and 
the Hollinger empire in Britain and Canada.
William Kristol - editor of the Weekly Standard, the main neo-
conservative rag owned by Rupert Murdoch
Judith Miller - New York Times "journalist"
Robert Murdoch - owner of the first global, media network -hundreds of 
TV channels including Fox News, newspapers, publishing houses, etc.
Marty Peretz - owner/editor-in-chief of The New Republic
Norman Podoretz - founder with W. Kristol of neo-conservatism; long-
time editor of the Jewish conservative, Commentary

Frank Rich - writer for the NY Times, mainly theater critic
William Safire - political columnist for the New York Times 
Mortimer Zuckerman - owner & editor-in-chief of "U.S. News & World 
Report"; owner of the "Atlantic" and "NY Daily News" 



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Conservative Uninformed 
Charles Krauthammer - writes a nationally syndicated editorial page 
for the Washington Post Writers Group that appears in over 100 papers
George Will - columnist in 450 newspapers, and bi-weekly column in 
Newsweek 
Lou Dobbs - CNN anchor
Ken Hamlin - newspaper columnist, radio noisemaker
Rush Limbaugh - radio noisemaker
Bill O'Reilly - Fox News noisemaker, sort of a lost soul
Most local broadcasters & newspersons like these individuals have a 
pro-Israel bias because of the reasons explained throughout this 
section.



 


Maybe, to be more accurate, there needs to be a fourth category titled 
Buffoon which is defined as one who yells alot without thinking or a 
journalist who is more worried about making money and attracting a 
following than the accuracy of anything he says. We could put O'Reilly, 
Limbaugh, Murdoch, etc. in that group. 

Some Neocon, rabidly Zionist, Periodicals: Commentary, National 
Review, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, The National Interest



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IV. Zionist Media Organizations
 
Zionists have found many ways to influence the media. Ownership, 
editors, columnists, film producers, reporters mentioned above are just 
some. Below are some additional methods they use.

The organization CAMERA - Committee for Accuracy in Middle East 
Reporting in America - founded in 1982, has as its purpose to read the 
articles in the American press and if there is anything critical of 
Israel to call the reporter, write letters to the editor, and even 
encourage boycotts. 
The Palestinian Media Watch takes a different approach. It scours the 
Palestinian media to find out what Palestinians are saying about 
Israel, and lays out how the Palestinians negative interpretations of 
Israeli society are "wrong." 
The Middle East Media Research Institute, founded by the wife of David 
Wurmser, a Zionist in the upper echelons of the U.S. State Department, 
does very biased, skewed, pro-right wing English translations of the 
statements of leading Arabs. It then hopes that the English media, 
which are notorious for lacking Arab speakers, presents these 
translations in their media outlets as accurate. 


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V. Zionists Continue Their Attack on America's Freedom of Speech
When it comes to Israel and many Jewish related topics, America has 
limited freedom of speech thanks to Zionist pressure. Some cases on 
point: 
A party in honor of Bad Faith, a book Carmen Callil wrote about Louis 
Darquier, the Vichy official who arranged the deportation of thousands 
of Jews, was to have taken place at the French embassy in New York on 
October 10, 2006 but was cancelled after the embassy was pressured by 
"fundamentalist Jews" to have the party shut down. Their complaint was 
a paragraph in the postscript of the book that noted what the Jews of 
Israel were doing to Palestinians. The author commented that its seems 
"everyone forgets." 
Tony Judt, a British-born academic based at New York University has 
had two speaking engagements called off after criticism of his views. 
Mr. Judt, an American Jew, was due to speak on the subject of the 
influence of the pro-Israeli lobby on US foreign policy and at a 
separate location under the title War and Genocide in European Memory 
Today during September of 2006. The first instance was at a location 
owned by the Polish consulate. The Polish consul, Krzysztof Kasprzyk, 
said after two inquiries by Jewish organizations and "delicate 
pressure" from them he cancelled the speech. In the second instance, 
Judt pulled out from a talk on the Holocaust at Manhattan College after 
a Jewish leader, Rabbi Avi Weiss, warned he would hold a protest of 
Holocaust survivors outside that event. 
In March of 2006 the Royal Court Theatre production of "My Name is 
Rachel Corrie" was to open in New York City after two sold-out runs in 
London and several awards. The play is about Rachel Corrie, a 23 year 
old American girl who was killed rein 2003 in Palestine by Israelis as 
she was trying to stop a bulldozer from demolishing Palestinian homes. 
The production was cancelled because of protests by New York Zionist 
Jews ? New York is Zionist City (ask Hilary Clinton who regularly bows 
to their wishes). Eventually the play opened at another theater despite 
the protests. 
The above are just three recent examples. This website is full of 
other ? intimidations of teachers, journalists, politicians, etc. that 
"keeps them quiet" and restricts America's knowledge, analytical 
thinking, and freedom of speech.




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VI. Mossad and the Media - Israel's Disinformation Network

The Mossad, the Zionist spy network similar to our CIA, has a global 
network of media contacts which their Department of Psychological 
Warfare uses. Mossad's motto is " By way of deception, thou shalt do 
War." The Department of Psychological Warfare's task is to feed their 
media contacts "background" - read disinformation and lies, that will 
help discredit and destroy the Palestinians and Arab nations that 
support them, and elicit sympathy for Israel's elimination of 
Palestinians. A second task of that department is to prepare 
information for the press attaches at Israeli embassies. Their purpose 
there is the same. Below are two examples of Mossad's many attempts at 
media disinformation in the United States.

In 1996, TWA flight 800 crashed off Long Island. 230 people died. 
Mossad contacted their world-wide media contacts stating that the crash 
was a terrorist act perpetrated by Iraq and Iran. This was another 
Israeli lie. The FBI spent a half million dollars and ten thousand man 
hours following all these Zionist lies. It determined that Iran and 
Iraq had nothing to do with this plane crash, the disinformation was a 
Mossad plant, and that the crash of TWA 800 was not a terrorist act. 
James Kallstron, the FBI agent in charge of the investigation said: "If 
there was way to nail those bastards in Tel Aviv, for time wasting, I 
sure would like to see it happen. We had to check every item they 
slipped into the media." Of course, by the time the FBI report came 
out, many Americans and others had mentally registered the 
disinformation as truth and damage was done to our relations with Iraq 
and Iran.

The bomb attack at the Atlanta Olympic Games provided another 
opportunity for a Zionist plot in this country and throughout the 
world. Again, Mossad's media contacts world-wide were given information 
that the way the bomb was made had the signature of Palestinian 
terrorists from Lebanon's Bekka Valley. Another lie. The bomb was the 
work of a lone American, a security guard, with no international or 
terrorist connections.

These are examples of what we American taxpayers are paying for when 
we give Israel billions of dollars a year.

(Source: Gideon's Spies by Gordan Thomas, p.69.)


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VII. Studies of Pro-Israel Media Bias in Newspapers


The results of Jewish ownership of so much American and world media, 
their presence on editorial boards, and their proclivity to scream and 
yell anytime the media reports anything which they perceive as negative 
about Israel or positive about Palestine is the basis of a study done 
by If Americans Knew, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to educate 
Americans about the billions of dollars of our tax money that goes to 
support Israel and its policy of ethnic cleansing. Below is a link to 
their study of the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury. 
The study demonstrates the outlandish, pro Israel bent of both papers. 
Both papers are more a grocery store tabloid than a respectable 
journalistic endeavor. The sad thing is that any similar study of any 
major American newspaper would produce the same results. (A clear 
summary by the author of this research is in the September 2003 edition 
of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. The title of the 
article is "Reversing Reality: Newspaper Coverage of Israel and 
Palestine" by Sarah Weir. The article is available on the Internet but 
without the charts.)

Media Pro Israeli Bias 



A Boston Globe Reporter Tells of Zionist Influence on the Media 
I FIRST REALIZED the enormous pressures on American journalists in the 
Middle East when I went some years ago to say goodbye to a colleague 
from the Boston Globe. I expressed my sorrow that he was leaving a 
region where he had obviously enjoyed reporting. I could save my 
sorrows for someone else, he said. One of the joys of leaving was that 
he would no longer have to alter the truth to suit his paper's more 
vociferous readers (Read "Zionist Jews" - website author).

"I used to call the Israeli Likud Party 'right wing,' " he said. "But 
recently, my editors have been telling me not to use the phrase. A lot 
of our readers objected." And so now, I asked? "We just don't call it 
'right wing' anymore." 

Ouch. I knew at once that these "readers" were viewed at his newspaper 
as Israel's friends, but I also knew that the Likud under Benjamin 
Netanyahu was as right wing as it had ever been. 

This is only the tip of the semantic iceberg that has crashed into 
American journalism in the Middle East. Illegal Jewish settlements for 
Jews and Jews only on Arab land are clearly "colonies," and we used to 
call them that. I cannot trace the moment when we started using the 
word "settlements." But I can remember the moment around two years ago 
when the word "settlements" was replaced by "Jewish neighborhoods" or 
even, in some cases, "outposts."

Similarly, "occupied" Palestinian land was softened in many  American 
media reports into "disputed" Palestinian land just after then-
Secretary of State Colin Powell, in 2001, instructed U.S. embassies in 
the Middle East to refer to the West Bank as "disputed" rather than 
"occupied" territory.

Then there is the "wall," the massive concrete obstruction whose 
purpose, according to the Israeli authorities, is to prevent 
Palestinian suicide bombers from killing innocent Israelis. In this, it 
seems to have had some success. But it does not follow the line of 
Israel's 1967 border and cuts deeply into Arab land. And all too often 
these days, journalists call it a "fence" rather than a "wall." Or a 
"security barrier," which is what Israel prefers them to say. For some 
of its length, we are told, it is not a wall at all so we cannot call 
it a "wall," even though the vast snake of concrete and steel that runs 
east of Jerusalem is higher than the old Berlin Wall.

The semantic effect of this journalistic obfuscation is clear. If 
Palestinian land is not occupied but merely part of a legal dispute 
that might be resolved in law courts or discussions over tea, then a 
Palestinian child who throws a stone at an Israeli soldier in this 
territory is clearly acting insanely. 

If a Jewish colony built illegally on Arab land is simply a nice 
friendly "neighborhood," then any Palestinian who attacks it must be 
carrying out a mindless terrorist act. 

And surely there is no reason to protest a "fence" or a "security 
barrier" words that conjure up the fence around a garden or the gate 
arm at the entrance to a private housing complex.

For Palestinians to object violently to any of these phenomena thus 
marks them as a generically vicious people. By our use of language, we 
condemn them.

We follow these unwritten rules elsewhere in the region. American 
journalists frequently used the words of U.S. officials in the early 
days of the Iraqi insurgency referring to those who attacked American 
troops as "rebels" or "terrorists" or "remnants" of the former regime. 
The language of the second U.S. pro-consul in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III, 
was taken up obediently and grotesquely by American journalists. 

Back in the old days, we used to believe did we not that journalists 
should "tell it how it is." Read the great journalism of World War II 
and you'll see what I mean. The Ed Murrows and Richard Dimblebys, the 
Howard K. Smiths and Alan Moorheads didn't mince their words or change 
their descriptions or run mealy-mouthed from the truth because 
listeners or readers didn't want to know or preferred a different 
version.

So let's call a colony a colony, let's call occupation what it is, 
let's call a wall a wall. And maybe express the reality of war by 
showing that it represents not, primarily, victory or defeat, but the 
total failure of the human spirit.

This is taken from an opinion piece titled "Telling It Like It Isn't" 
by Robert Fisk. It appeared in the Los Angeles Times. Below is the 
link. Robert Fisk is Middle East correspondent for the London 
Independent and the author, most recently, of "The Great War for 
Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East," published last month by 
Knopf. My readers should note that although this is about American 
journalism, the same applies to Zionist influence in other countries 
especially Europe, Australia and Canada whose people complain of the 
same thing. 

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-fisk27dec27,
0,6099761.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions 
 




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