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Mainstream Media Fails Posted: Thursday, March 4, 2004 The Press and Haiti: Assuming the Right to Intervene It's not just a matter of American boots on the ground and bombs from the sky. Much more common than the range of overt violence from U.S. military actions is the process of deepening poverty from economic intervention. Outside the media glare, Washington's routine policies involve pulling financial levers to penalize nations that have leaders who displease the world's only superpower. From His First Day in Office, Bush Was Ousting Aristide Only someone ignorant of U.S. history and of the administrations of George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush would dismiss these questions. The United States has repeatedly sponsored coups and uprisings in Haiti and in neighboring Caribbean countries. Flashback Kissinger Had a Hand in 'Dirty War' Democrats Slam Bush Administration over Aristide Ouster Haitian Fantasies: Mainstream Media Fails Itself Mainstream media had a credibility problem. Their original story was openly contradicted. The kidnap story could be ignored or back-paged as was done by many newspapers in the US. Or it can be framed within the context of a US denial and dismissed. Haiti, Is That One of the Tahitian Islands? Fears Iraq being manipulated into civil war   Printer friendly version  Send page by E-Mail |