Letters to the Editor
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Media was complicit, not ignorant about the facts
Gary Kamiye would have us believe that the Bush administration so swayed the mainstream media, that they became unwitting accomplices in the lie toward the march to war in Iraq. No, no, no. The corporate media was willing and more than able to be used as a propaganda machine for the right wing because they thought they had everything to win and nothing to lose. Even though their credibility has been low ever since the Reagan revolution and the aftermath of the rise of christian and corporate extremism, the media has been strategically complicit in aiding and abetting the right wing agenda for their own nefarious ends. How can anyone justify the enormous salaries these readers and pundits pocket for their less than honest dissemination of news? How can anyone doubt the double standards of punditry and gasbags in relation to how Bill Clinton was hounded and how George W is allowed to get away with impeachable, yea criminal offenses? Gary Kamiye's article is sort of patronizing in his condemnation of the media. He should be holding them more accountable for their duplicity in leading the nation astray.