Sunday, April 01, 2007
I don't think this necessarily means that CNN alone is biased.
Listening to CNN, CNN Headline News, XM Public Radio, and BBC World Service on my way to and from work, I'm struck by the unrelenting negativity of their coverage of Iraq. Every car bomb is described with loving care. Each suicide bomber is more evidence that Iraq is a lost cause. There can be no good news.
These journalists all hang out together, reinforce each others' views, wish to be invited to the same dinner parties, what have you. It's not that they don't want to report the "truth", as such, it's just that everything they report is filtered by their echo chamber, their standard view.
If you want to read about leftist echo-chambers, how they’re built, and their results, take a little time to read this thesis.
It’s about the left’s view of Cambodia between about 1975 and 1979. About how an echo chamber was formed and how the cries of the murdered in Cambodia were drowned by the howls of the American left, journalistic and academic.
The end result? Over a million Cambodians dead, with almost nary an apology from the American left. Indeed, Chomsky's weasel-wording enhanced his reputation for infallability.
The same sort of Standard Total Academic View has formed about Iraq. The view is that the US has screwed it up, Iraq cannot be recovered, we’d best turn and run now, etc. Ware is just repeating the accepted line within his echo chamber.
If the US does abandon Iraq, you can be sure that some time around 2030, a graduate student is going to do another honors thesis, with a title something like “THE SUNNI/SHI’ITE/BA’ATHIST CANON 2003 - 2009: The Standard Total Academic View on Iraq."
In the thesis, we’ll get the details of how the left forced the US out of Iraq, how four million or so Iraqis were massacred afterwards, and the end result on Iraq. Probably something like a partition resulting in an independent Kurdistan, annexation of southern Iraq by Iran, and annexation of of western Iraq by Syria and Saudi Arabia, with Syria linking up with Iran to give Iran Mediterranean ports.
And yet again, the long-dead Chomsky, and most of his assorted acolytes, will have managed to escape any blame, despite responsibility for the whole mess.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose, as Khieu Samphan might have said.
UPDATE: Apparently the Ware story was bogus. That said, I remain struck by the unrelenting negativity of the coverage of Iraq.
Listening to CNN, CNN Headline News, XM Public Radio, and BBC World Service on my way to and from work, I'm struck by the unrelenting negativity of their coverage of Iraq. Every car bomb is described with loving care. Each suicide bomber is more evidence that Iraq is a lost cause. There can be no good news.
These journalists all hang out together, reinforce each others' views, wish to be invited to the same dinner parties, what have you. It's not that they don't want to report the "truth", as such, it's just that everything they report is filtered by their echo chamber, their standard view.
If you want to read about leftist echo-chambers, how they’re built, and their results, take a little time to read this thesis.
It’s about the left’s view of Cambodia between about 1975 and 1979. About how an echo chamber was formed and how the cries of the murdered in Cambodia were drowned by the howls of the American left, journalistic and academic.
The end result? Over a million Cambodians dead, with almost nary an apology from the American left. Indeed, Chomsky's weasel-wording enhanced his reputation for infallability.
The same sort of Standard Total Academic View has formed about Iraq. The view is that the US has screwed it up, Iraq cannot be recovered, we’d best turn and run now, etc. Ware is just repeating the accepted line within his echo chamber.
If the US does abandon Iraq, you can be sure that some time around 2030, a graduate student is going to do another honors thesis, with a title something like “THE SUNNI/SHI’ITE/BA’ATHIST CANON 2003 - 2009: The Standard Total Academic View on Iraq."
In the thesis, we’ll get the details of how the left forced the US out of Iraq, how four million or so Iraqis were massacred afterwards, and the end result on Iraq. Probably something like a partition resulting in an independent Kurdistan, annexation of southern Iraq by Iran, and annexation of of western Iraq by Syria and Saudi Arabia, with Syria linking up with Iran to give Iran Mediterranean ports.
And yet again, the long-dead Chomsky, and most of his assorted acolytes, will have managed to escape any blame, despite responsibility for the whole mess.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose, as Khieu Samphan might have said.
UPDATE: Apparently the Ware story was bogus. That said, I remain struck by the unrelenting negativity of the coverage of Iraq.
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