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The Journalists Do The Shouting

Hirthler, Jason
http://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/the-journalists-do-the-shouting/

Publisher:  CounterPunch
Date Written:  12/07/2019
Year Published:  2019  
Resource Type:  Article

A summary and analysis of some of the mainstream media's coverage US conflicts with Iran.

Abstract: 

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Excerpt:

At this very moment, we're seeing the narrative being constructed for war against Iran. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told us, "It is the assessment of the United States government" that Iran perpetrated the oil tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman. He offered no evidence. He then attempted to situate the recent attacks in a historical context in which he blamed Iran for, "forty years of unprovoked aggression against freedom-loving nations." This is easily as sophomoric as various claims from the Bush administration....

Then the snowball effect kicks in. Once U.S. leadership has staked its claim, its media surrogates slip into view with clamorous denunciations and calls for action. Look how swiftly the corporate media rushed to not only confirm Pompeo’s assessment, but call for a decisive response. Washington Post writer Reuel Marc Gerecht, who helped holler for the Iraq War while at The New York Times, uses his considerable platform to assure readers that "America Can Face Down a Fragile Iran" suggesting that the Islamic Republic would falter during a "prolonged confrontation."
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