Corporatocracy 'news' on Gaza, Iran, and then some real news

by: fairleft

Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 13:46

Israel fights 'perverse' UN report on Gaza

The funniest part is this sentence --

Both sides of the Gaza conflict criticised the report for putting them on the same footing.

-- followed by 5 paragraphs of Israeli criticism of the report, and then the article ends.

Just a reminder that it is possible to headline the release of the UN report fairly: Israel, Hamas called to account. Now was that so hard?

Related is the 'Anything to get "Iran's Got Nukes!" Into the Headline' 'News':

Iran is a nuclear power: Ahmadinejad aide

Where the Iranian spokesperson is allowed to dispel the headline's glaring implication in paragraph 20:

Javanfekr said Iran is ready to face the six powers and "during the talks we will definitely speak of banning nuclear arms globally because it is not a problem for us as we do not possess any nuclear arms."

So, obviously 'nuclear power' means 'nuclear power power'. Some of you got your war on before you realized that, right? That was the intent.

Meanwhile, McClatchy continues to be a source of news. Here it provides some reality on the domestic side, first the real health care catastrophe:

Family health costs outpace inflation and wage growth

The article links to this chart:

The news article, being news, appropriately doesn't tell us that Obama's health care proposal will do nothing about health care's skyrocketing cost, since doing something would bother the profits of heavy campaign contributors like the insurance and hospital industries. Hey, it would be nice if there were more of that from the mainstream liberal punditocracy or even from obscure blue blogs, but that is where Obamalove generally continues to reign.

Finally, there's this, also from McClatchy:

Americans are getting poorer, and it's going to get worse

Nice comment at the bottom by LuckyTN:

LuckyTN wrote on September 14, 11:41 AM:

Politicians are able to "fix" things if they are not bought off by corporations. Our government is becoming less and less democratic and more and more resembling an corportocracy-oligarchy. We are allowing the following discourse to prevail: he who makes the most noise wins. Willing ignorance of facts, lack of civil discourse, collective paranoia, and a prevalence of fear of the"other" are destroying our government and society. We appear to be willing dupes as corporations as well as a bought and paid for governmental structure dismantle our society in the name of profits from low wages, outsourcing jobs, little or no regulation governing business practices, and destruction of the environment.

Keeping our eye on the prize, ending corporate control of our 'democracy', is easy when the real news is as bad as it is, and never has it contrasted more sharply with the 'news'.