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How Saddam Manipulates the U.S. Media


(New Republic) Franklin Foer - CNN, BBC, Associated Press, Reuters, and the handful of other news organizations with a permanent presence in Baghdad are all housed in the Iraqi Ministry of Information. Like their Soviet-bloc predecessors, the Iraqis have become masters of the Orwellian pantomime - the state-orchestrated anti-American rally, the state-led tours of alleged chemical weapons sites that turn out to be baby milk factories - that promotes their distorted reality. And the Iraqi regime has found an audience for these displays in an unlikely place: the U.S. media.
2002-10-21 00:00:00
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