Red State Renegade

Glenn Greenwald, in his commentary on yesterdays Times article (see previous post), does a stellar job of showing how there is nothing truly new about the findings in the Times article - that the times actually reported on this thorny subject back in 2003, and that the only new aspect is the mock ’surprise’ over these revelations.

Furthermore, the Times is as guilty as any other outlet of these deceptions, itself acknowledging that “at least nine” of the Pentagon’s trained military analysts wrote Op-Eds for the NYT itself. Greenwald points out that “many of those same sources were also repeatedly quoted — and still are routinely quoted — in all sorts of NYT news articles on Iraq and other “War on Terrorism” issues, something the article fails to note.”

He summarizes:

“The single most significant factor in American political culture is the incestuous, extensive overlap between our media institutions and government officials. The former is a dependent appendage of the latter far more than they are anything else. This article discloses some new details and proof of how that toxic process functions, but the fact that our major news organizations — with some exceptions — largely serve as government propaganda outlets is not news.”