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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (299175)	9/22/2002 7:35:58 PM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

re: The media needs to be outted for the lying pack of sycophants The entire US media ignored the "Do you have blacks in Brazil?" inquiry from Bush. It took a German magazine, Der Spiegel, to report the story. And Dan Rather confessing to the BBC that he feared being "necklaced" for appearing less than patriotic. Do you have blacks in Brazil? It is said, that, before September 11, George W. Bush thought the Taliban were a Bavarian brass band. Now, thanks to his comprehensive knowledge, the most powerful man in the world has got into hot water again. Washington - It was Condoleezza Rice, national security advisor, who helped her boss out of the embarassing situation. During a conversation between the two presidents, George W. Bush, 55, (USA) and Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 71, (Brazil), Bush bewildered his colleague with the question "Do you have blacks, too?" Rice, 47, noticing how astonished the Brazilian was, saved the day by telling Bush "Mr. President, Brazil probably has more blacks than the USA. Some say it's the Country with the most blacks outside Africa." Later, the Brazilian president Cardoso said: regarding Latin America, Bush was still in his "learning phase". gwbush.com Dan Rather's Mea Culpa in an Extraordinary Interview By Javier Sierra Special for www.libertad-prensa.org 21 May 2002 Washington, USA, May 20th, 2002 - Dan Rather, the anchor of CBS News, one of the country's most influential journalists, has confessed that the current political climate has led him, and the rest of the US journalism profession, to self-censorship. In extraordinarily candid interview with BBC, Rather said that since the terrorist attacks of September 11, the US media have stopped asking President George W. Bush and his government "the toughest of tough questions." "I do not exempt myself from this criticism," he said during his appearance last week on BBC's Newsnight program, on which he stated that "patriotism run amok" has put the integrity of the journalism profession at risk. Rather used extreme examples to illustrate his assertions. "It is an obscene comparison - you know I am not sure I like it - but you know there was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented", he said. "And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions." icfj.org CNN tells reporters: No propaganda, except American By Patrick Martin 6 November 2001 In an extraordinary directive to its staff, Cable News Network has instructed reporters and anchormen to tailor their coverage of the US war against Afghanistan to downplay the toll of death and destruction caused by American bombing, for fear that such coverage will undermine popular support for the US military effort. A memo from CNN Chairman Walter Isaacson to international correspondents for the network declares: “As we get good reports from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, we must redouble our efforts to make sure we do not seem to be simply reporting from their vantage or perspective. We must talk about how the Taliban are using civilian shields and how the Taliban have harbored the terrorists responsible for killing close to 5,000 innocent people.” “I want to make sure we’re not used as a propaganda platform,” Isaacson declared in an interview with the Washington Post, adding that it “seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan.” wsws.org