The Media As Enablers of Government Lies
Campaign For Liberty
by James Bovard
11/16/09
Why do politicians so easily get away with telling lies? In large part, because the news media are more interested in bonding with politicians than in exposing them. Americans are encouraged to believe that the media will serve as a check and a balance on the government. Instead, the press too often volunteer as unpaid pimps, helping politicians deceive the public. In 1936, New York Times White House correspondent Turner Catledge said that President Roosevelt’s ‘first instinct was always to lie.’ But the Washington press corps covered up Roosevelt’s dishonesty almost as thoroughly as they hid his use of a wheelchair in daily life...
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=363
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=check+and+balance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Bovard
by James Bovard
11/16/09
Why do politicians so easily get away with telling lies? In large part, because the news media are more interested in bonding with politicians than in exposing them. Americans are encouraged to believe that the media will serve as a check and a balance on the government. Instead, the press too often volunteer as unpaid pimps, helping politicians deceive the public. In 1936, New York Times White House correspondent Turner Catledge said that President Roosevelt’s ‘first instinct was always to lie.’ But the Washington press corps covered up Roosevelt’s dishonesty almost as thoroughly as they hid his use of a wheelchair in daily life...
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=363
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=check+and+balance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Bovard
rudkla - 17. Nov, 11:01
