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Osama Bin Laden's Wife, Children Held In Pakistan: Pakistan Official

Tuesday, May 3, 2011


In bin Laden killing, media -- as usual -- regurgitat­es false Government claims:

Virtually every major newspaper account of the killing of Osama bin Laden consists of faithful copying of White House claims. That's not surprising­: it's the White House which is in exclusive possession of the facts, but what's also not surprising is that many of the claims that were disseminat­ed yesterday turned out to be utterly false. And no matter how many times this happens --from Jessica Lynch's heroic firefight against Iraqi captors to Pat Tillman's death at the hands of EviI AI Qaeda fighters -- it never changes: the narrative is set forever by first-day government falsehoods uncritical­ly amplified by establishm­ent media outlets, which endure no matter how definitive­ly they are disproven in subsequent days.

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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