NBC News knew the story of its reporter being kidnapped by Syrian government forces and freed by the rebels was bogus but they ran with it anyway.

NBC News knew the story of its reporter being kidnapped by Syrian government forces and freed by the rebels was bogus but they ran with it anyway. ( ronpaulinstitute.org )

submitted 2015-04-21T13:06 by OWNtheNWO

9 comments

zeppa123 2015-04-22T00:18

Greenwald has a great story on this as well.

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Empire_of_the_mind 2015-04-21T18:44

JESSICA FUCKING LYNCH ya'll.

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flyawayhigh 2015-04-21T14:48

Bottom line: NBC lies to promote wars. But most of us know this already. Let's not forget.

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mr_skeltal 2015-04-21T15:05

NBC lies to promote wars

The entire western media does this, some are just more overt than others. American news stations are kind of an oddity because they are not compelled by law to be impartial or truthful. The most popular ones seem to spout unbelievably sensationalist or biased stories, stories being an appropriate descriptor as many of them have no basis in fact. This is not to say that biased news is an exclusively American thing, it is just far more obvious than in many other countries.

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flyawayhigh 2015-04-21T15:16

Right, but some people think NBC is the "liberal" station. NBC was never "the liberal station." And it's not now. I want to emphasize this so we can begin to shed this "NBC liberal" notion.

The problem with major media is structural . We can't regulate away the bias. We need to change the structure.

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Charlie_Prime 2015-04-21T19:33

Stop giving NBC any of your attention. Laugh at anyone who does give NBC attention. Then it dies.

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flyawayhigh 2015-04-21T19:36

You know that, I know that ... Too many don't. Gotta keep getting the word out! :D

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mr_skeltal 2015-04-21T15:26

Agreed. More liberal than Fox does not mean liberal. It just means not rabidly foaming at the mouth to attack the Democrats. As for changing the structure of the mass media, I think that the internet will do a pretty good job at that IF it isn't throttled by the kingpins of the media world. That is a pretty big if though.

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Charlie_Prime 2015-04-21T19:32

The word "liberal" actually means the opposite of what 99% of trailer park republicans think it means.

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