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CounterPunch: An Open Letter to NPR: Warped Coverage of the Middle East (6/12/06) by Felice Pace
A longtime listener notices a pattern in the instant change of topic after a Weekend Edition interviewee looks beyond the killing of al-Zarqawi to explain that "Israeli policies and actions toward the Palestinians and U.S. support for those policies and actions, as well as the invasion and destabilization of Iraq, are the...basis of anti-American feelings." Pace challenges editors and producers to explain why their reporters treat such views "as hot potatoes; there is the moment of silence, then they are hurried into obscurity as quickly as possible."The problem with this sort of reporting, of course, is that it helps create a U.S. citizenry that is out of touch with realities which folks most other places in the world understand as matters of fact. Combine the myopia of the U.S. citizenry with the global reach and force of U.S. power and you have a situation which is prone to manipulation, abuse and disaster. Ergo Iraq!
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