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11:05 AM ON WED JUL 18 2007
BY OWEN THOMAS
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Propaganda
Google's right-wing Australian mouthpiece
Google, more than ever, needs brassy PR people who aren't afraid to assert boldly that black is white, ignorance is freedom, and evil is good. Heck, I'd applaud the hiring of Rob Shilkin purely on the basis of his last name. (Say it with me: "SHILL-kin.") But I wonder if the mostly lefty crew in the Googleplex were aware of his politics. Four years ago, Shilkin, then a lawyer, penned several pieces praising the "Allies' great work in Iraq" and decrying critics of pre-war intelligence reports. Then again, perhaps his fellow Googlers learned all this through the company's quasi-proctological interview process, and came away from it admiring his capacity for doublespeak and self-delusion.
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The 'intelligence failures' are a ploy to discredit the Allies' great work in Iraq
By Rob Shilkin- posted Friday, 20 June 2003
Yet the members of Australia’s anti-war brigade still refuse to accept that this has all happened. Ever since the fall of Baghdad, they have been bitterly carping from the sidelines. The current furore over Iraq’s “missing” weapons of mass-destruction is the latest effort from among their ranks.
This particular issue has been dressed up as a debate on flawed intelligence reports. But no one could sensibly assert that the West fabricated Saddam’s WMD ambitions.
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ABC News Viewers: No Reality Please
The media have not acknowledged their consistent misreporting of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinians, in which they create a false symmetry between the two sides and strip the violence of the necessary context in which it becomes intelligible. The situation is so bad that when a BBC reporter accidentally lets slip something approximating reality, he is roundly condemned by fellow journalists for exhibiting an “unbelievable” and “poisonous” “degree of bias”.
A Look In The Mirror
CNN in Bilin: Blames the Victim
But they don't control our perception of what we see, would that they could. Peace be to you.