Mainstream Media Now Merely a Propaganda Tool
December 04, 2005 08:02 PM EST
by Doug Patton

Liberals have been doing a great deal of harrumphing over revelations that the Pentagon may have paid Iraqi newspapers to publish positive stories about the American presence in their country. To paraphrase Sen. John McCain to Tim Russert on “Meet the Press,” if the stories are true and that is what it takes to get the news out in Iraq, so what?

Indeed. In fact, a much more sinister form of propaganda is being spread right here in the land of the free. It has become almost an article of faith among conservatives (myself included) that the so-called mainstream media are about as biased in favor of the Left as they can be and still call themselves American. But occasionally, one of them stuns me with a statement so blatant that it takes my breath away. A recent example was so palpable that it could provide the cornerstone for yet another sequel to Bernie Goldberg’s best-selling media exposes` “Bias” and “Arrogance.”
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