Osama Bin Laden's Wife, Children Held In Pakistan: Pakistan Official
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
In bin Laden killing, media -- as usual -- regurgitat
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 disseminat ed 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 uncritical ly amplified by establishm ent media outlets, which endure no matter how definitive ly they are disproven in subsequent days.
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