Today’s media is more consolidated than ever. Six giant corporations own 90 percent of MSM, a point underscored by this footage of newscasters from various stations reading identical lines.
But just like Obama’s teleprompter gaffs, the news media encounters its
own scripting slipups. Many believe this happened on 9/11, when a BBC
commentator reported the collapse of Building No. 7 twenty minutes
before it happened.
A script calls for actors. “Witnesses” can be quite effective, as when
false testimony about Iraqi soldiers throwing Kuwaiti babies out of
incubators spurred American support for the 1991 Gulf War. It was
eventually proven that the “anonymous” Congressional witness was Nayirah
al-Sabah, the daughter of Kuwait’s ambassador to the U.S., and had been
coached on her tearful testimony by the global public relations firm
Hill & Knowlton.
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