VITAMEDIAS
Learning to Resist Propaganda: Propaganda. What does it mean? How does it work? How can we resist it, and live more decently with one another?
War Is Sell: "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August," White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. told the New York Times in September. Card was explaining what the Times characterized as a "meticulously planned strategy to persuade the public, the Congress, and the allies of the need to confront the threat from Saddam Hussein."
US media is an accomplice in the war on Iraq: The Americans are a good and peace-loving people, and that’s why it is extremely difficult to convince them of the viability of war. The American media, however, is working overtime to facilitate this task. Americans are being brainwashed into supporting war on Iraq. They have been persuaded that a small and beleaguered Third World nation like Iraq poses such a threat to the United States and its interests that it is worth spending billions of dollars and sacrificing thousands of American lives­ besides opposing world opinion in order to defeat it.
Is the American media up to the job? How independent are American journalists? And how committed are they to the ethics of the profession?