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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
My thanks to Glenn for his repeated emphasis on this topic.
The co-incidence of major news producer and major military and defense / industrial contractor interests has been an awful, awful tendency for this nation since at least the Reagan administration.
Before that, sure, the major news corporations identified strongly with their military / defense corporate class colleagues through sheer class solidarity and standard hawkish predilection, but the direct inter-weaving of their interests (anyone remember the utterly false hyping of the "Patriot" missile, to boost its production and sales in Gulf War 1?) has lowered a previously low standard into the cellar.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
