Manufacturing Consent
Okay, so the U.S. government and media scream bloody murder when dead or captured U.S. soldiers appear in the Iraqi media, but it's okay for pictures of dead Iraqis to be front-page news in U.S. newspapers. That's one thing, and it's pretty disgusting hypocrisy in and of itself, but I just caught an Associated Press article about U.S. anti-war protesters wounded by the police, complete with graphic pictures (you might want to skip these, pants_of_doom). I read the full text of the article, but I got the unstated message loud and clear: "Sit down and shut up, peacenik: 'your' government is in control, and you could be next in line for rubber bullets, mmkay?" It makes me mad.