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The media hides the unpalatable truth from the general public
IAN SINCLAIR looks at a recent report on how the media covers up the bloody reality of Western wars in the Middle East
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FROM what I can tell, a new report from monitoring group Airwars, concerning US media coverage of the US-led military interventions in Iraq and Syria since 2014, has been ignored by the entire British media, except for the Morning Star.
“News reporting on civilian casualties from international and US actions was found to be largely absent during key periods of the conflict,” the study concludes.
The extraordinary depth of this Western power-friendly journalism is highlighted by Airwars’ survey of more than 900 US Department of Defence transcripts of press conferences.
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