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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 |
AZCentral: "The White House, intent on continuing to crank out 'video news releases' that look like television news stories, has told government agency heads to ignore a Government Accountability Office memo criticizing the practice as illegal propaganda."
NYTimes: "More than 20 federal agencies, including the State Department and the Defense Department, now create fake news clips.
Most of these tapes are very skillfully done, including 'interviews' that seem genuine and 'reporters' who look much like the real thing. Only sophisticated viewers would easily recognize that these videos are actually unpaid commercial announcements for the White House or some other part of the government. Some of the videos clearly cross the line into the proscribed territory of propaganda, and the Government Accountability Office says at least two were illegally distributed."
12:15:35 PM 
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DemocracyNow: "The Pentagon has estimated that since the start of the current conflict in Iraq, more than 5,500 U.S. military personnel have deserted."
Guardian: "Italy will begin withdrawing its 3,000 troops from Iraq in September, the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, announced today."
BBC: "Two of the largest contingents in the US-led coalition in Iraq, the Netherlands and Ukraine, are in the process of pulling their forces out."
Poland is planning to reduce its presence.
While Bush is taking on more and more, his support dwindles. And American troops are shooting their own allies.
TurkishPress: "The deputy commander of the Iraqi army in western Al-Anbar province was shot dead by US troops at a checkpoint Tuesday night, a police officer said."
12:05:09 PM
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