I run a Brooklyn mailing company, but am also a graduate student at the New School, and I have also managed weekly newspapers in Brooklyn and Greenwich Village. I have also been a radio announcer. And now this...

Friday, December 02, 2005

Iraqi Propaganda
Regarding the news that the US pays Iraqi newspapers to get fake positive news published, Senator Ted Kennedy had the best response:

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., characterized the program as a scheme that “speaks volumes about the president’s credibility gap. If Americans were truly welcomed in Iraq as liberators, we wouldn’t have to doctor the news for the Iraqi people.”

I wonder if Senator John Warner, who seems to think that we are doing the right thing 'because it's war,' ever read Pravda in the old days.