{"id":16274,"date":"2016-01-10T17:44:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T22:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16274"},"modified":"2016-01-10T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T22:45:07","slug":"a-us-media-lost-in-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16274","title":{"rendered":"A US Media Lost in Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A US Media Lost in Propaganda<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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There was once a time \u2013 perhaps just a brief moment in time \u2013 when American journalists were cynical and responsible enough to resist being jerked around by U.S. government propaganda, but that time has long since passed if it ever existed, a reality that William Blum describes.<\/p>\n

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Vulgar, crude, racist and ultra-sexist though he is, Donald Trump can still see how awful the American mainstream media is.<\/p>\n

I think one of the main reasons for Donald Trump\u2019s popularity is that he says what\u2019s on his mind and he means what he says, something rather rare amongst American politicians, or politicians perhaps anywhere in the world. The American public is sick and tired of the phony, hypocritical answers given by office-holders of all kinds.<\/p>\n

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ABC-TV anchor George Stephanopoulos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When I read that Trump had said that Sen. John McCain was not a hero because McCain had been captured in Vietnam, I had to pause for reflection. Wow! Next the man will be saying that not every American soldier who was in the military in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq was a shining hero worthy of constant media honor and adulation.<\/p>\n

When Trump was\u00a0interviewed<\/a>\u00a0by ABC-TV host George Stephanopoulos, former aide to President Bill Clinton, he was asked: \u201cWhen you were pressed about [Russian president Vladimir Putin\u2019s] killing of journalists, you said, \u2018I think our country does plenty of killing too.\u2019 What were you thinking about there? What killing sanctioned by the U.S. government is like killing journalists?\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump responded: \u201cIn all fairness to Putin, you\u2019re saying he killed people. I haven\u2019t seen that. I don\u2019t know that he has. Have you been able to prove that? Do you know the names of the reporters that he\u2019s killed?<\/p>\n

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