La presse américaniste “de référence” retrouve sa vertu de conformisme

Il est vrai que depuis qu’il est question de “preuves” des vilenies iraniennes en Irak, donc qu’il est question de nous refaire le coup de l’Irak, la presse US “de référence” change de ton. Elle semble abandonner bien vite ces attitudes critiques qu’il lui sembla devoir adopter après le 7 novembre 2006 et l’expression de la colère populaire, pour se réfugier dans l’habituel suivisme conformiste des bonnes nouvelles données par l’autorité suprême. (Quelle meilleure “bonne nouvelle” que d’apprendre que les Iraniens sont bien ces crapules qui méritent qu’on les attaque?)

Greg Mitchell, de Editor & Publisher, nous le signale dès le 11 février, à propos d’un article du New York Times :

«Saturday [11 February]’s New York Times features an article, posted at the top of its Web site late Friday, that suggests very strongly that Iran is supplying the “deadliest weapon aimed at American troops” in Iraq. The author notes, “Any assertion of an Iranian contribution to attacks on Americans in Iraq is both politically and diplomatically volatile.”

»What is the source of this volatile information? Nothing less than “civilian and military officials from a broad range of government agencies.”

»Sound pretty convincing? Well, almost all the sources in the story are unnamed. It also may be worth noting that the author is Michael R. Gordon, the same Times reporter who, on his own, or with Judith Miller, wrote some of the key, and badly misleading or downright inaccurate, articles about Iraqi WMDs in the run-up to the 2003 invasion.

Sur le même sujet, nous vous signalons ce commentaire introductif de BuzzFlash.com, du 12 février, introduisant une formidable interview de Robert Parry, éditeur du site http://www.consortiumnews.com/. (Nous reviendrons sur cette interview de Parry.)

«Our interview with Parry is published at a timely moment.

»Much to the shock of BuzzFlash readers, the mainstream press is once again going the route of letting the Busheviks ''frame'' America into a war. Not only is it using the same techniques and subterfuges that it used to lie us into the Iraq War, the media — including the New York Times and Washington Post — are once again swallowing the whole package after apologizing for being mindless cheerleaders of the deceit that led to the Iraq War.

»Of all the tragic ironies, the use of our GIs as bait in Iraq — where we shouldn't have been in the first place — is being used to justify another war, with a country that was a natural enemy of Iraq until Bush invaded Baghdad. But don't expect to find those truths or that context in the mainstream corporate press.»

Mis en ligne le 14 février 2007 à 02H23