Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: US Soldiers Bring Home Stories, Videos of Atrocities

US Soldiers Bring Home Stories, Videos of Atrocities
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/us-soldiers-bri.html


http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/us-soldiers-bri.html
Questo e' stato sulla prima pagina della International Harald Tribune,
l'edizione ridotta "per Americani all'Estero e stranieri" del New York
TImes... MA NON NEL NEW YORK TIMES EDIZIONE AMERICANA!
Su tutti i giornali Europei, ma in nessuno dei grandi giornali o
stazioni TV USA.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page
Why Are Winter Soldiers Not News?
3/19/08
Dozens of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars gathered in
Silver Spring, Maryland last weekend for the Winter Soldier: Iraq and
Afghanistan hearings (3/13/08-3/16/08), where they offered harrowing
testimony about atrocities they had witnessed or participated in
directly. The BBC predicted that the event, organized by Iraq
Veterans Against the War, "could be dominating the headlines around
the world this week" (3/7/08). The hearings were covered as far
afield as the U.K. (Guardian, 3/17/08), Australia (Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, 3/14/08), Croatia (Javno, 3/16/08), and
Iran (Press TV, 3/14/08). Yet there has been an almost complete media
blackout on this historic news event in the U.S. corporate media.
Despite being noted in the New York Times' Paris-based International
Herald Tribune (3/13/08), Winter Soldier has yet to be mentioned in
the New York Times itself. No major U.S. newspaper has covered the
hearings except as a story of local interest; the few stories major
U.S. newspapers have published on the event have focused on the
participation of local vets (Boston Globe, 3/16/08; Boston Herald,
3/16/08; Newsday, 3/16/08, Buffalo News, 3/16/08).
The Washington Post, too, published their account in the metro
section (3/15/08). In contrast, the paper published an article about
pro-war demonstrators protesting the Winter Soldier hearings in the A
section (3/16/08), despite the fact that they were, according to the
Post, "small in number."
None of the major broadcast TV networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) have
mentioned the hearings in their newscasts. PBS has been silent as
well.
But for a couple of exceptions (Time, 3/15/08; NPR, 3/16/08), the
But for a couple of exceptions (Time, 3/15/08; NPR, 3/16/08), the
hearings have been virtually ignored by all but the independent media
(Democracy Now!, 3/14/08; 3/17-18/08; In These Times, 3/17/08;
Alternet, 3/14/08) and military publications (Stars and Stripes,
3/15/08 and the four Military Times newsweeklies, 3/15/08, 3/17/08),
in a pattern reminiscent of the near complete corporate media
blackout on the first Winter Soldier hearings. FAIR founder Jeff
Cohen (Huffington Post, 3/16/08) traces the beginning of his career
as a media critic back to his experience of watching as "one of the
rare mainstream camera crews showed up at Winter Soldier... and then
abruptly packed up to leave in the middle of particularly gripping
testimony."
While the testimony of soldiers who had served multiple tours of duty
was broadcast on Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now!, Free Speech TV, and
the Real News network, the major broadcast networks and PBS instead
devoted airtime to the pro-war assessments of Vice President Dick
Cheney and Sen. John McCain, both of whom have only made brief visits
devoted airtime to the pro-war assessments of Vice President Dick
Cheney and Sen. John McCain, both of whom have only made brief visits
to Iraq (NBC Nightly News, ABC World News, CBS Evening News, PBS
NewsHour, all 3/17/08).
Given the common media rhetoric of "supporting the troops" (FAIR
Action Alert, 3/26/03), to ignore these same troops when they speak
out about the horrors of the war is unconscionable. On the fifth
anniversary of the Iraq War, it is particularly important that the
media reverse this silence, and include the voices of the vets who
are speaking out about their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan in
national news coverage.
ACTION:
Contact the broadcast networks and ask them why they decided to
ignore the Winter Soldiers hearings while carrying the less-informed
observations on Iraq of John McCain and Dick Cheney.
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E, aggiungerei, guardatevi questo bel film
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5631882395226827730&q=manufacture+consent&total=404&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
per capire PERCHE' questo tipo di storie sono ignorate.

 Why Are Winter Soldiers Not News?
perchè come ha detto l'idiota in chief in Iraq ci resteranno per
sempre, non importa quanti bilioni di dollari costerà la guerra e
quanti pezzenti ci rimetteranno la pelle?