@all4naija and bastage

For those quoting crap from these western corporations let me take you back to history, i'm sure you all remember the vietnam war this is an exert from a publication explaining how the western media started an unjust war that claimed 2million plus Vietnamese lives

American Planes Hit North Vietnam After Second Attack on Our Destroyers; Move Taken to Halt New Aggression", announced a Washington Post headline on Aug. 5, 1964.

That same day, the front page of the New York Times reported: "President Johnson has ordered retaliatory action against gunboats and 'certain supporting facilities in North Vietnam' after renewed attacks against American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin."

But there was no "second attack" by North Vietnam — no "renewed attacks against American destroyers." By reporting official claims as absolute truths, American journalism opened the floodgates for the bloody Vietnam War.

In 1965, Lyndon Johnson commented: "For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there."

But Johnson's deceitful speech of Aug. 4, 1964, won accolades from editorial writers. The president, proclaimed the New York Times, "went to the American people last night with the somber facts." The Los Angeles Times urged Americans to "face the fact that the Communists, by their attack on American vessels in international waters, have themselves escalated the hostilities."

An exhaustive new book, The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam, begins with a dramatic account of the Tonkin Gulf incidents. In an interview, author Tom Wells told us that American media "described the air strikes that Johnson launched in response as merely `tit for tat' — when in reality they reflected plans the administration had already drawn up for gradually increasing its overt military pressure against the North."

Why such inaccurate news coverage? Wells points to the media's "almost exclusive reliance on U.S. government officials as sources of information" — as well as "reluctance to question official pronouncements on 'national security issues.'"

Daniel Hallin's classic book The "Uncensored War" observes that journalists had "a great deal of information available which contradicted the official account [of Tonkin Gulf events]; it simply wasn't used. The day before the first incident, Hanoi had protested the attacks on its territory by Laotian aircraft and South Vietnamese gunboats."

What's more, "It was generally known, that `covert' operations against North Vietnam, carried out by South Vietnamese forces with U.S. support and direction, had been going on for some time."

We should not also forget Iraq and  the media propaganda of Saddam's WMD and baby killings, I ask you all WHERE IS THE FUCKING WMD

Now lets look at Libya, Havent u realized that the Media companies have always reported from the rebels side? how has a no fly zone mandate by the UN turned into air raids and attacks on innocent civilians? they said they were there for humanitarian purposes , why is Libya on the brink of humanitarian disaster?  

How many times has the US cracked down on its on citizens using guns and even bombs? How many real dictators who have acheived nothing in comparison to Ghadaffi are supported by the US?

 Think and read while its still legal .

mama-gee:

Some south African officials clearly have issues. . .

Nah, you're the one with the issues here,

http://pressenza.com/npermalink/evidence-of-british-and-cia-collaboration-with-gaddafi-in-the-rendition-and-torture-programme-found-in-tripoli

read to find evidence that your so-called Ghadaffi was ALSO a CIA collaborator. So your so-called anti-imperialist champion was NOT. he was just a bold-faced dictator like the rest of them.

cap28:

^^^^^
ah yes the same bbc who lied about saif al islam being in rebel custody, now why would i doubt their reports.

Media houses, including the BBC, reported rebel and ICC statements that Saif el Islam was being being. The statements were duly credited.