"Here is the pattern that I see: The president's mishandling of and selective use of the best evidence available on the threat posed by Iraq is pretty much the same as the way he intentionally distorted the best available evidence on climate change and rejected the best available evidence on the threat posed to America's economy by his tax and budget proposals," Gore said.
The Bush administration, Gore said, employs a "propaganda machine" that engages in "a systematic effort to manipulate facts in service to a totalistic ideology that's felt to be more important than the mandates of basic honesty."
So a mere five and a half years later, the main-stream media fed public has:
serious difficulty recognizing the mishandling and selective use of the best evidence available on the threat posed by Iran, Hamas and Afghanistan,
serious difficulty recognizing the distortions of the best available evidence on climate change
little if any idea of the warnings raised about the damage that would be inflicted upon the American economy by the Bush tax cuts and phony budget proposals
The mainstream media - press, TV and radio - serve as a tool for the interest of the corporate, financial, infotainment, educational and military elites whose vested interests devolve to maintaining the status quo: those with the most wealth to get ever more of it; those in power triangulating schemes to keep and expand it.
The MSM is a perpetual propaganda machine engaged in a corrupt and persistent effort to manipulate facts in service to an ideology that benefits the powerful few to the serious detriment of most.
Don't expect our elected democratic officials or the so-called liberal of the MSM to address this. By definition these too are elites.
