Firing Editing for Effect

"...Watch the images closely.

It's another reason to keep your eyes open..."



That journalism is used an instrument to try to alter reality by altering perceptions should come as no surprise. They have to alter what they can't quite control, becasue the press doesn't seem to be able to accept that the public is capable of interpreting events for themselves.

“When I was in the United States recently and read the negative news in the Washington Post, New York Times and in the network TV broadcasts, I even wondered if things had gotten so bad since I had left that I shouldn’t return,” said [Iraqi Kurdistan Prime Minister] Barzani.