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Administration Spoon-Feeding U.S. Media

By AAN Staff
march 12, 2003  09:40 am
Administration Spoon-Feeding U.S. Media
The Bay Guardian's Camille T. Taiara looks at a few recent major Bush administration violations of civil rights -- including alleged wiretapping of recalcitrant U.N. diplomats -- that have rocked the European press and been largely ignored at home. "By and large, the media in the United States has totally failed in its obligation to do [monitor the centers of power]. Instead of challenging officialdom, it's become a conduit, a funnel down which officialdom can talk to us," Robert Fisk, veteran Middle East correspondent for the U.K.'s Independent newspaper, told her by phone from Beirut.
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