spider, i would like to ask where you get your information. I have both friends and relatives that either live in Iraq or had to leave and their comparison to pre american invasion and post is that life was better pre invasion.

I didn't say it's better for everyone. Baath and Baath supporters are probably not as well off. But now, at least, everyone is under the rule of law and equal under the law.

The difference between the days of Operation Mockingbird and the present situation is that, instead of actually placing network executives, publishers, editors, reporters and pundits on the CIA payroll, their contemporary counterparts are now members of the Right Wing Think Tanks*. In addition to Cato's Murdoch, some high profile examples are MSNBC's Laura Ingraham (a notorious 'Scaifette' from the Independent Women's Forum [13] ) and ABC's John Stossel [14] . CNN's Kate O'Beirne is a Heritage fellow (and previous VP) who is a regular columnist for the National Review. Also, old Bonesman/CIA hand William F. Buckley, Jr. is the Editor of the arch-conservative Review. The National Review's President and Chairman is none other than Thomas Rhodes, who was recently a Heritage Board member. Other right wing journals financed by these sugar-daddies (and mommies) include the American Spectator, Human Events and Murdoch's Weekly Standard."
From Glen Yeadon's "From the streets of Little Beirut" (2/28/03):

"CIA censorship and media-propagandizing was supposed to have stopped in the mid-1970s after the Church Committee investigated the CIA's Project Mockingbird. At the time, every major media outlet was infected with Mockingbird. Coexisting with Project Mockingbird was a FBI operation named COINTELPRO. COINTELPRO was successful in destroying not only leftist groups but also more importantly the press of the left. Ramparts Magazine was a major target eliminated by COINTELPRO. In one short decade, the alternative press had been wiped out."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Talk:Operation_Mockingbird

Heil Hitler,Heil Hitler,death to free speach!!!!We can't have free thinking in a Dictatorship led by Obama!!!Control the minds of the people thats the way!!!

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

102,083 civilans

I think this is much more accurate website for civilan deaths in Iraq.

IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT DON'T WATCH IT !

http://www.drudge.com/news/126361/wh-boycott-fox-pay-czar

WH Boycott Fox For Pay Czar Interview-Networks Said No
The signal to corporations is equally clear: You might have dealings with a federal behemoth that not only disburses more than $3 trillion every year but is extending its reach ever deeper into private industry finance, autos, soon health care and energy. Think twice before you run an ad on Fox.


At first, there was little reaction from other media. Then on Thursday, the administration tried to make them complicit in an actual boycott of Fox. The Treasury Department made available Ken Feinberg, the executive pay czar, for interviews with the White House "pool" news organizations except Fox. The other networks admirably refused, saying they would not interview Feinberg unless Fox was permitted to as well. The administration backed down.

study, published in prestigious medical journal The Lancet, estimated that over 600,000 Iraqis had been killed as a result of the invasion as of July 2006. Iraqis have continued to be killed since then. The death counter provides a rough daily update of this number based on a rate of increase derived from the Iraq Body Count. (See the complete explanation.)

The estimate that over a million Iraqis have died received independent confirmation from a prestigious British polling agency in September 2007. Opinion Research Business estimated that 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed violently since the US-led invasion.

This devastating human toll demands greater recognition. It eclipses the Rwandan genocide and our leaders are directly responsible. Little wonder they do not publicly cite it. You can use the simple HTML code above to post the counter to your website to help spread the word.

Add your name to the petition telling Congress that about a million Iraqis have likely been killed since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Help us continue this important work with a tax-deductible contribution.

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq

Nice to see the other media outlets sticking up for Fox in the Feinberg case. I hope this will send a message to The Administration,you cannot stop freedom of the press. be seeing you

FOX is a wing of the republican party. They need to be shut out They are not a real news channel

They dont throw poop at people tho.....

There is a better site I like. I'm gonna put it in myspace. I am not affiliated with any parties, but I wholeheartedly hate wars, especially useless ones.

here, play around with the options if you'd like:

http://costofwar.com/

FAUXnews advertised and participated in the Teabag parties,therefore they have no journalistic credibility

YEAH LETS KILL FREEDOM OF THE PRESS!!


BRING ON GOVERNMENT CONTROL!


WHO DO PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE REPORTING THE NEWS, OR HAVING OPINIONS!!!



BURN THE WITCH!!!!


And while your at it.. DRINK THE COOLAID!!

Opinions are like a$$h@les.... everyone voted for one....

That is propaganda we have been fed here.

I will bet you it isn't true.

MMM MMM MMM.

I wouldn't support them being shut down or banned or restricted.

They just need to be classified properly. Rightwing propaganda source for the right wing swing or spin on the news.

And all the others don't have a slant?
May as well call them the Obamamedia