Is the Corporate Media Complicit In American’s Indifference and Acceptance of War?
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Professor Noam Chomsky writes as follows about the US destruction on November 9, 2004 of Fallujah General Hospital in Iraq: “The word ‘conflict’ is a common euphemism for US aggression, as when we read [in the New York Times] that ‘now the Americans are rushing in engineers who will begin rebuilding what the conflict has just destroyed’ — just ‘the conflict,’ with no agent, like a hurricane.” Professor Chomsky expresses his outrage at the way a leading newspaper contrives to obscure moral responsibility for destroying a hospital filled with patients and medical personnel while reassuring readers that some kind of meaningful rescue is underway.
By: Richard V
By: Richard V