It Couldn’t Happen to Nicer Guys
by Ian Mosley
A large part of the moral responsibility for what is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan comes down to the atrocious Fox News Network. Owned by Australian neocon tycoon Rupert Murdoch, Fox News has become the official Bush Network, roughly equivalent to Pravda in the old Soviet Union. Fox News is largely responsible for feeding the American people masses of disinformation about the war in Iraq and the state of Israel, and thus keeping Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sixpack in a state of catatonic stupor as to what is really going on, and why.
The Muslims seem finally to be waking up to the crucial role that Fox News plays in keeping their people enslaved. A Reuters news article reports that “Palestinian gunmen kidnapped two foreign journalists working for the Fox News Channel in Gaza on Monday….A Fox spokeswoman in New York named the two journalists as correspondent Steve Centanni, an American, and cameraman Olaf Wiig, from New Zealand…Two vehicles blocked the journalists’ transmission truck in the center of Gaza City and a masked man put a gun to a bodyguard’s head, forcing him to the ground. The kidnappers then sped away with the two journalists.” (more…)