Roxana Saberi’s Plight and American Media Propaganda
May 11th, 2009Via: Slate:
Saberi’s release is good news, as her conviction occurred as part of extremely dubious charges and unreliable judicial procedures in Iran. And, as Ambinder suggested, her release most likely is a positive by-product of the commendable (though far from perfect) change in tone towards Iran specifically and the Muslim world generally from the Obama administration. But imprisoning journalists — without charges or trials of any kind — was and continues to be a staple of America’s “war on terror,” and that has provoked virtually no objections from America’s journalists who, notably, instead seized on Saberi’s plight in Iran to demonstrate their claimed commitment to defending persecuted journalists.
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American “journalists”…. are nothing more than propaganda mouth pieces for the establishment. They couldn’t pour piss from a boot with instructions on the heel. Without a doubt the most overpaid “actors” and willfully ignorant robots on the planet.