Media should tell the truth for once!

I am tired of writing about how the media mishandles the propaganda promoting war with Iraq. However, even though I am fed up, the developments regarding North Korea's nukes--how come I knew they had nukes (read any of my last three or four columns) but the Bushies didn't find out until a couple of weeks ago?--keep me going one more month.

First of all, by the reporting in the mainstream media you'd think North Korea nukes was only a rumor. It's hardly even mentioned in traditional news print (naturally, it's all over the Internet), as if it's no big deal. After all, "there's a war on" and it's headed for Iraq, no matter how much attention Kim Jong-il craves (surely not food--I bet you he and his ilk are the only ones eating well in that pitiful country). So I'm not even going to get all peed-off about why Iraq is still the world's number one "evil" even though North Korea is far more dangerous, to us, any number of allies, and to its own languishing people.

I can just hear some wag say, "Yeah, but they don't threaten Israel, so what the heck."

Now I am going to stop lambasting the media for lying and come right out and ask it: When are you going to start telling the truth? (I could ask the same of the Bushies, but this is Media Issues, not Political Issues or White House Issues.)

Why? Because it's come to the point that almost everything in the online media that comes close to the Bush administration's line regarding Iraq sounds like a lie or seriously bad misinformation.

It still pains me that a fine online news organ, WorldNetDaily, is being so bellicose for attacking Iraq now. In fact it has occurred to me that Joseph Farah, an Arab to boot, is in fact an operative of Israeli intelligence, or something else such as his Western Journalism Center is an arm of the Mossad, or something. But that couldn't be, could it? Farah has always taken honorable positions in the past. So I e-mailed the guy, and actually got a response! I asked him (stating that I was against the war on Iraq) how come he knew that Saddam was connected to al-Qaida (I had just read his article, "Why Iraq? Why now?" at "http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTI..."). It was well known that, yes, al-Qaida was in Iraq, but in Northern Iraq with the US-supported Kurds [which is why I called them the "Albanians of the Middle East"], not in proximity to Baghdad or Saddam.) So Farah told me to read a book by Youseff Bodansky called "Bin Laden: the Man Who Declared War on America", and in this Bodansky claims that Bin Laden has close ties to Saddam, etc., and that this is the book that anyone in Congress who wants war has read to back up their position. I will read the book when I get around to it; still, it makes no sense, because Saddam is anything but a fundamentalist Islamist, and that Osama can't wait for the US to invade Iraq--now why is that?

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