KPFA News on Iraq killings worse than mainstream media!

by Aaron Aarons

Fri, Sep 30, 2005 1:51AM

Here's a recent example of how the uncritical attitude of KPFA's News Department leads them to do the propaganda work of the U.S. rulers for them. The recording of Monday's News broadcast can be downloaded from the web link given below. The sentences uttered by Mark Mericle begin 16:27 from the start of the file.

On Monday, September 26, at about 6:16 PM, Mark Mericle spoke the following lines on KPFA News:

Iraqi insurgents dragged five Shiite Muslim school teachers and their driver into a classroom, lined them up against a wall and gunned them down today -- flames that reflect the inflamed sectarian divisions ahead of a constitutional referendum. The shooting was a rare attack on a school amid Iraq's relentless violence and it was particularly stunning since the gunmen targeted teachers in a school were the children were mainly Sunnis.

If one searches Google News for reports on this attack, one finds that most mainstream media refer to the killers as "gunmen", and not as "insurgents". Some of them also mention that the killers were dressed in police uniforms. Leave it to KPFA News to attribute, without any evidence, an apparent atrocity to those resisting the U.S. occupation of Iraq -- the resistance fighters who those who want to legitimize the puppet government label "insurgents".

For more information: http://157.22.130.4/data/20050928-Wed0600.mp3

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§Thanks, Aaron

by JA

Fri, Sep 30, 2005 8:59AM

For your late night vigilance.

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§Here's a comment made by one observer of the corporate news on the PBS Newshour:

by JA

Fri, Sep 30, 2005 9:07AM

I came in on the middle of the broadcast and didn't catch his name, but I'll bet that was *his* first and *last* time on the PBS Newshour:

Everything that American media could throw at a story, it threw at New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina. No expense was spared. All hands were on deck. And yet not one news organization produced anything like complete coverage of the events unfolding inside the city's convention center or the Superdome. Horrific stories of murders and rapes spread like wildfire, reports of little girls with their throats slashed stunned Americans, and hysteria gripped many in the MSM. Weeks later the Los Angeles Times and others began to examine the collapse of the media's own levees that traditionally hold back rumor and urban myth.

Given this failure to capture the true story in New Orleans even with all of the combined resources of all the MSM working around the clock, why would anyone believe that American media is accurately reporting on the events in Iraq from the Green Zone, in the course of a bloody insurgency fought in a language they don't understand? If the combined forces of old media couldn't get one accurate story out of the convention center, why for a moment believe it can get a story out of Mosul or Najaf?

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