Through misinformation and resultant disunity distributed by printed news, television, or the Internet, people are misled and made to feel powerless to change anything.
According to a poll taken by the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/washington/10poll.html), six years after the attacks on 9/11, a third of the U.S. still believes Saddam Hussein was personally involved despite no evidence to support that belief. On September 7, 2002 Tony Blair stood alongside George W. Bush at a Camp David press conference. “Together, they declared that evidence from a report published by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) showed that Iraq was ‘six months away’ from building nuclear weapons.” (The Exception to the Rulers, by Amy Goodman, 2004) In reality, there was no such IAEA report.
These are just two of so many examples of irresponsible journalism. As a corrupt mass media continuously misleads us, we must create a new, legitimate news source, that at least builds in the capacity for collective learning.
