Articles by Russ Baker
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Oh Thank God—Finally, War With Syria
Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Probable factors, almost none of which have been reported by the major media, include
1) the desire to create new bases in the Middle East to watch over the Iraqi oilfields without taking flak for maintaining a permanent presence in Iraq;
2) eliminating one of the last non-Western-dependent pan-Arabists left;
3) getting rid of a regime that works closely with China and Russia; and especially
4) weakening one of Iran’s few and most important allies.
How War Reporting in Syria Makes a Larger Conflict Inevitable
Russ Baker – WhoWhatWhy,
9 Apr 2012
The media’s job is not just to send in correspondents to get heartrending firsthand or eyewitness accounts of violence. Rendered without the big picture—namely, what is happening and why—war reporting can turn into propaganda for more, not less, war. Thus, the media plays perfectly into the hands of those seeking a trumped-up opportunity for the West and its Arab allies to remove yet another “inconvenient” regime.
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Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy.com – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2011
Conventional journalism is increasingly irrelevant in a time of crisis. We find abundant proof in a recent column from the New York Times’ so-called “Public Editor,” who is supposed to somehow magically represent the public interest and rarefied ethical values to the rest of the paper. In this column, he says the media is having difficulty figuring out how to cover Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots.
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