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Have the corporate media paid any attention to the Pentagon fraud presenting compensated retired military offices posing as independent commentators about the war in Iraq ? Of course they have ! Surely, you don't think they were all just routine, happenstance "news" items that presented themselves to viewers all by themselves, do you ? The MSM and the Pentagon worked together to stage the repeated broadcasts and planned them all, together, in detail.

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"...although in a format that makes it impossible to easily search them and therefore difficult to read and dissect."

uh, git a grep, why doncha?

duh. try using a 'puter.

convert pdf to text:

batch pdf convert

grep, wah?

Grep

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No. There is no real coverage - a piece like this goes to Alternet, and gets put on the sidebar, and in any case it is only a few paragraphs, not a longer expose.

What about the bogus claims about weapons of mass destruction? Those were never investigated, and no long-term series of stories was ever published by the left-wing press, or any other American press outlet.

What about the stolen 2000 election? What about the fraudulent and rigged electronic voting systems? Why has that all been forgotten by the lefty press?

What about domestic spying and the illegal use of government agents to track and infiltrate anti-war and anti-globalization groups, even extending to the use of government agent provocateurs dressed as protestors?

What about the bogus 911 Truth Movement, that got sooo much coverage here at Alternet and Democracy Now? - and yet Alternet never ran a single story pointing to the fact that 911 Truth is mostly made up of government agent provocateur and PR types, who use the typical "I'm a nut, and so are all my acquaintances" approach to smearing antiwar activists.

I don't see a daily list of the impeachable crimes of GW Bush here at Alternet.

There's not even any footage of the Iraq war.

This site, my friends, along with much of the rest of the left-wing and right-wing activist press, is in my opinion a fraud. In the late 1990s (and even before) there was an effort made by private foundations to set up a large number of internet web and radio "alternative news sites" that would appear to be liberal, but whose real purpose was to help shape public opinion and keep the public under control.

This is really apparent when you look at the stories that the alternative press refuses to cover - the fall 2001 anthrax attacks, the rise of the public-private government-industry combines linked to nuclear and biological warfare activities (Democracy Now has never even mentioned Battelle Memorial Institute), the larger foreign trade agenda of the United States - oh, it gets covered, but the coverage is similar to that of the New York Times or the Washiington Post - a story gets buried on the back page.

In reality, a story is "covered" when a reporter or team of reporters writes a long series of stories that come out every month for a year or more, and which can then be repackaged in book form.

That's what traditional journalism was really all about - and the problem today is not that people don't care enough to read such exposes, but that the corporate press - left, center, and right - doesn't want to do such investigative work.

Now, wake up and rub those cobwebs out of your eyes. . .

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