WMD OPENS IN NEW YORK
A CRONKITE MOMENT
HONORING OSSIE DAVIS
“I finally made it to Broadway, even if it is 99th Street” was my opening quip in a voice still cracking from overuse and a cold that won’t quit, as WMD opened at the New Metro, one of two theaters showing the film in New […]

Maybe that’s why some otherwise good reporters don’t realize that many of the issues I raise in WMD have legitimacy. In a minute, I will update you on some of the issues I did cover and what some of the people I interviewed are saying now.
But first, a critique of the Iraq election […]

CNN SHOULD BE PNN (PENTAGON NEWS NETWORK)
But what is our media focused on? Only violence against our troops and who do they interview? Soldiers who have been there? Soldiers who are critical. Soldiers who have been blogging? People like former Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey who blew the whistle on atrocities he personally witnessed? […]

I am off to Rome later this week to testify at the World Tribunal on Iraq hearings on media wrongs. Media issues are front and center in the Italian capital:

ROME (AFP) - “Several hundred people, carrying rainbow peace flags, rallied by torch light outside the Rome city council to press for the release of […]

Doug Ireland reports on an interview raving rightist Ann Coulter gave on Canadian TV:

“Interviewed for the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Bob McKeown for the investigative TV broadcast “The Fifth Estate,” which devoted an hour-long special on January 26 to how U.S. media have been highjacked by conservative bullies, Coulter was berating Canada for not sending troops […]

YOUR LETTERS
Ronald Shepston:

“From Robert Kennedy’s book ‘Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and his Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy’ (HarperCollins, 2004):
“Kennedy quotes Hitler’s propaganda chief Herman Goerring: ‘It is always simply a matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, […]

Former Marine Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey, honorably discharged after 12 years of service, reads from his upcoming book "Cowboys from Hell" at a February 6, 2005 anti-war event in New York City.
Massey recounts an incident at the Rashid camp, a large military compound in southern Baghdad. Sgt. Massey entered Iraq as part of the initial […]

This is an excerpt from an interview with Jimmy Massey by News Dissector webmaster and WBAI-NY radio producer Doug George. Doug asks Jimmy what kind of experiences he’s had with the U.S. media. Uncannily, Jimmy mentions "WMD", which he had seen the night before.

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