Comments on: No Heroes, please, we’re British…especially if they’re not one of us http://www.bloggernews.net/15846 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:22:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Jonathan Boyd Hunt http://www.bloggernews.net/15846#comment-12124 Jonathan Boyd Hunt Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:49:38 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/15846#comment-12124 Had I not suffered the experience of a national news blackout on my journalistic exposé of a major story of press corruption in the UK, I would have treated John Breland's comments above with caution. However I have no doubt that Mr Breland is spot-on with his assertion: "Propaganda is the biggest enemy we face today." I recommend a viewing of a one-hour interview of former BBC staff reporter Robin Aitken – an affable, obviously honest and genuine guy, who blows the lid on the BBC's immense global influence, and its poisonous anti-Americanism and anti-conservatism. Is it any wonder the U.S.A. is losing the war for hearts and minds across the world, when one listens to Mr Aitken's revelations? Check out the full interview here: http://doughty.gdbtv.com/player.php?h=b524c130467a4ee367acfcbceeecce67 Download the interview in low-res in four parts here: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-1218032548968887664 http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5585065725990508038 http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-5091564970939428403 http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-1260540977083410564 I also recommend a reading of my two essays on the danger that the BBC and its mentor, The Guardian, pose to American interests. "British Media Invade the U.S." http://www.aim.org/aim_report/4488_0_4_0_C/ " "Impartial News" with a British Accent?" http://www.aim.org/aim_report/4723_0_4_0_C/ Had I not suffered the experience of a national news blackout on my journalistic exposé of a major story of press corruption in the UK, I would have treated John Breland’s comments above with caution. However I have no doubt that Mr Breland is spot-on with his assertion: “Propaganda is the biggest enemy we face today.”

I recommend a viewing of a one-hour interview of former BBC staff reporter Robin Aitken – an affable, obviously honest and genuine guy, who blows the lid on the BBC’s immense global influence, and its poisonous anti-Americanism and anti-conservatism. Is it any wonder the U.S.A. is losing the war for hearts and minds across the world, when one listens to Mr Aitken’s revelations?

Check out the full interview here: http://doughty.gdbtv.com/player.php?h=b524c130467a4ee367acfcbceeecce67

Download the interview in low-res in four parts here:

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-1218032548968887664
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5585065725990508038
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-5091564970939428403
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-1260540977083410564

I also recommend a reading of my two essays on the danger that the BBC and its mentor, The Guardian, pose to American interests.

“British Media Invade the U.S.”
http://www.aim.org/aim_report/4488_0_4_0_C/

” “Impartial News” with a British Accent?”
http://www.aim.org/aim_report/4723_0_4_0_C/

]]> By: John Breland http://www.bloggernews.net/15846#comment-11807 John Breland Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:25:36 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/15846#comment-11807 This is not an isolated incident. I served with the U.S. Army in Iraq from March 2003 until March 2004, and even then I was sickened by the great disparity between what I was with my own eyes and what I saw reported in the news. What we have seen is probably the biggest and most malicious propoganda war in the history of mankind. The news media collectively set out to poison the public's opinions and attitudes about the war. Every problem, mistake or setback is hyped and presented in the worst possible light; every success and all progress is totally ignored. This goes far beyond mere "slant." This is purposeful, manevolent deception. I know a journalist in Mosul, Iraq, who was out of work after the war began. He was approached by a French news agency who wanted to hire him specifically to collect "bad new" - news about bombings, protests, deaths, etc. A man of integrity, he refused, even though the pay was tempting for a man with a family and no other way to support them. Propoganda is the biggest enemy we face today. There's little wonder that we in the military like to call the National Media Establishment by its acronym: NME. Say it fast, aloud - N-M-E - and you'll get what I mean. This is not an isolated incident. I served with the U.S. Army in Iraq from March 2003 until March 2004, and even then I was sickened by the great disparity between what I was with my own eyes and what I saw reported in the news. What we have seen is probably the biggest and most malicious propoganda war in the history of mankind. The news media collectively set out to poison the public’s opinions and attitudes about the war. Every problem, mistake or setback is hyped and presented in the worst possible light; every success and all progress is totally ignored. This goes far beyond mere “slant.” This is purposeful, manevolent deception. I know a journalist in Mosul, Iraq, who was out of work after the war began. He was approached by a French news agency who wanted to hire him specifically to collect “bad new” - news about bombings, protests, deaths, etc. A man of integrity, he refused, even though the pay was tempting for a man with a family and no other way to support them. Propoganda is the biggest enemy we face today. There’s little wonder that we in the military like to call the National Media Establishment by its acronym: NME. Say it fast, aloud - N-M-E - and you’ll get what I mean.

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