[antimedia] antimedia: Here's just one more way....

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Posted by antimedia:
Here's just one more way....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1179283332.shtml


   ....that [1]the media lies to you.

     Remember in 1984, where Winston's job was to revise newspapers of
     the past to keep up with the ever changing present? This is very
     interesting. A couple years ago, during the Katrina disaster, I
     linked to a CNN report and quoted it:
     Overnight, police snipers were stationed on the roof of their
     precinct, trying to protect it from gunmen roaming through the
     city, CNN's Chris Lawrence reported.
     One New Orleans police sergeant compared the situation to Somalia
     and said officers were outnumbered and outgunned by gangs in
     trucks.
     "It's a war zone, and they're not treating it like one," he said,
     referring to the federal government. ...
     One of my readers ran into that posting of mine--and noticed that
     the CNN report at that link no longer said anything like that. It
     was much, much more upbeat. Nothing about the police snipers on the
     roof. Did I copy the wrong link? Did I have a brief attack of
     delusion, and make something up?
     Nope. Lots of other people linked to that same CNN page, and quoted
     the same text. Like
     http://paulsplanet.blogspot.com/2005/09/fall-of-new-orleans_02.html
     and http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002476.html .

   In response, one wag labeled CNN the "Changeable News Network". (Hat
   tip to [2]The Discerning Texan.)
   Tags: [3]media [4]lies [5]CNN

References

   1. http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/2007_05_13_archive.html#6757811905066984528
   2. http://discerningtexan.blogspot.com/2007/05/was-george-orwell-channeling-cnn.html
   3. http://technorati.com/tag/media
   4. http://technorati.com/tag/lies
   5. http://technorati.com/tag/CNN