omegahpla, on reading down i figured, woofer, would come up with the name. Not surprised she did.
Yeah Arnett, thanks, I couldn't see strait. I don't think he was a good guy. I think he was a traitor. I think he was a dishonest journalist, well, I know he was.
This was posted a couple of days back .. was hoping you may have read all of it, but guess you didn't ..
More casualties of our McCarthyism times
Ed Gernon was another casualty of these McCarthyism times in which journalists couldn’t even comment in general about what our country was like without being fired. The veteran TV producer was fired in April 2003 from the company that produced the CBS mini-series Hitler after this comment about that project in TV Guide: “It basically boils down to an entire nation gripped by fear, who ultimately chose to give up their civil rights and plunge the whole nation into war. I can’t think of a better time to examine this history than now.”
Another note for conspiracy theorists: TV Guide was owned by far-right media mogul Rupert Murdoch in 2003. Was Gernon set up? At the very least, his firing for expressing an opinion about a society when such opinions were suppressed further proved his point about the parallels between 1930s Nazi Germany and the present-day U.S.
Not even a respected Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent like Peter Arnett could get away with saying general comments. He was fired by NBC in March 2003 after saying on an Iraqi television station that war planners “misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces” and that there was “a growing challenge to President Bush about the conduct of the war.”
An NBC statement said, “It was wrong for Mr. Arnett to grant an interview to state-controlled Iraqi TV - especially at a time of war - and it was wrong for him to discuss his personal observations and opinions in that interview.”
Why is it ever wrong to state opinions in a so-called “free society?” Could it be that our society is not as free as we like to think it is? Why does our “free society” have to stop allowing freedom of speech and the press when there is a war? Could it be because those opinions might get in the way of executing that war and reduce advertising and thus media owners’ profits? So much for freedom of speech and the press by such hypocritical, greedy media owners.
I don’t buy the argument that Arnett’s comments could have led to more American troops dying, or that he shouldn’t be talking to Iraqi media. American and Iraqi troops and thousands of Iraqi civilians died because Bush-Cheney invaded Iraq for their own selfish political and economic reasons, not because of anything Arnett said. Put the blood on Bush-Cheney’s hands.
And to really get beyond war, we have to stop seeing everything in nationalistic terms. As the American patriot Tom Paine said, “My country is the world.” But of course, Bush-Cheney won’t stop the patriotic nationalism wave because it keeps them in power. They want an American empire.
Republican Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky and others even called for Arnett, who quickly found another job with England’s Daily Mirror, to be arrested and tried for treason. And people in this country still think there are no parallels to Nazi Germany here?
The rise of the thought police
The corporate masters even want to control our private thoughts. Former Fort Worth Star-Telegram business reporter Steve McLinden, who I competed against at one time, was axed in March 2003 for simply sending a private email critical of a political group called Young Conservatives of Texas. Like Norr, McLinden’s job had little to do with politics, and he wasn’t even getting arrested in a demonstration.
All McLinden did was send an email to this group in response to a mass email sent by the conservative organization announcing its plans to protest an Austin speech by President Clinton in February. The hypocrites...........
Yeah Arnett, thanks, I couldn't see strait. I don't think he was a good guy. I think he was a traitor. I think he was a dishonest journalist, well, I know he was.
You know he was a dishonest journalist and traitor, do you? Do you know who else only, thinks that? We all saw him back then.
Ps: i think i sent you some links re Bush policy affect on oil prices. Were you happy with them?
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