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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 Evil Al 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.

Yesterday, it was widely reported that bin Laden "resisted" his capture and "engaged in a firefight" with U.S. forces (leaving most people, including me, to say that his killing was legally justified because he was using force). It was also repeatedly claimed that bin Laden used a women -- his wife -- has a human shield to protect himself, and that she was killed as a result. That image -- of a cowardly through violent-to­-the-end bin Laden -- framed virtually every media narrative of the event all over the globe. And it came from many government officials, principall­y Obama's top counter-te­rrorism adviser, John Brennan.

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