Pacific Free Press was launched in March 2007 by Dutch-Canadian Richard
Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in the Netherlands along with Chris Cook- CFUV radio journalist and Editor in Chief of Pacific Free Press. Cook is based in , Victoria, British Columbia.
The mission of Pacific Free Press is simple: to dig out nuggets of truth from
the slag-heap of lies, ignorance and witless diversion that has buried
public discourse today. Pacific Free Press provides a new venue for
disseminating hard news and insightful, fact-based analysis of the
harsh realities too often ignored or distorted by the mainstream press.
Why do We Need a National Conference for Media Reform?
Bush just connected Iraq to 9-11 again, and the media will not tell you it was a lie.
Bush just gave a list of reasons why this time his escalation of the war will work. The reasons amounted to:
1)We'll have more troops.
2)We'll go into neighborhoods holding hands with Iraqis
3)Maliki won't "tolerate" any interference
A minute later Bush told us there will still be IED attacks and suicide bombings. The media will not point out that such actions ought really to count as interference.
Bush just announced that he wanted to share Iraq's oil profits with all of the Iraqi people, and the media will not examine what Bush is actually doing or even question his right to determine what happens to Iraq's oil.
Bush just said that Al Qaeda is "still" active in Iraq, and
the media will not tell you that Al Qaeda's activities in Iraq really
began when Bush attacked and turned the country into a training ground
for terrorism.
Bush just issued a vague threat to Iran and Syria, and the media will
not question his right to do that or the sanity of doing so.
Bush just claimed that withdrawing from Iraq would amount to siding
with "extremists" which continuing to occupy Iraq would amount to
siding with Iraqis. The media will not contrast this lie with public
opinion polls taken of Iraqis.
Bush just claimed he was making Americans more safe with his occupation
of Iraq. The media will not contrast this claim with any studies of the
actual effects of the Iraq War.
Bush just claimed he cared about U.S. service men and women. The media
will not ask our troops what they think. Veteran and military family
organizations opposing the war will not be asked to comment for the
morning headlines.
The media WILL report on Bush's posture, tone of voice, tie color, and
attitude. The trivial will be made into the gargantuan. The important
will be slipped in sideways, quietly, in the form of an unstated
assumption that the "surge" is already underway and out of Congress's
hands to stop – an action that would be indecent anyway.
The media will not ask or try to answer what Bush means when he says
"victory." The media will not raise the question of what this war is
being fought for.
The media will depict the anti-war movement as striving ultimately only
for a rejection of the "surge." No mention will be made of efforts to
de-escalate and end the war. And the media will continue to call the
"surge" a surge, gradually dropping the quotation marks.
The media will not show us the Iraqi people killed and injured by our war.
And as long as Tucker Carlson is given air time, people will ask me if
I'm one of THOSE Swansons. No, I'm not. I have no money. The anti-war
movement has no money. And we have no media.
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Here's why.
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