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Wednesday, 9 June 2004
Albrecht hypocrisyI do try to avoid indulging in the reading pleasure of
Chomsky and other true leftist types.
But when they spell out the truth with such plainness and coherence, one
must defer. Here, the World Socialist Web Site sets straight
loopy Janet Albrechtsen… As far as columnist Janet Albrechtsen was concerned it was all the
fault of “media bias”. Looking back on the horrors of Nazi Germany, one
sometimes wonders how it was that Hitler could find supporters in the media.
Were they perverted types, deformed from birth? Not at all. They were rather
like Ms Albrechtsen: well-paid individuals, attracted to power and those who
wield it, and who understand that their well-being is bound up with the
maintenance of the prevailing order. According to Ms Albrechtsen, the “skewed reporting” of Iraq raises
the question of whether Western nations can successfully wage war. “If Adolf
Hitler were rampaging through Europe now, would we have the stomach to fight
him, to accept the carnage inevitably required to defeat him? Or would media
images of our own brutality cause us to surrender?” Janet, so elegantly you sidestep the reality that if the
Iraq invasion had a shred of legitimacy, the outcry over prisoner abuse would
have lasted days, not weeks. |