Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Media is the message: Death to Democracy

Ongoing battle for hearts and minds - Dec 21, 2005
JANET ALBRECHTSEN
"Unfortunately, though, the insurgents are working out the whole Western media gig. They have kept up a steady diet of media-worthy killings aimed at sapping the West's resolve. They know that the best weapon to stifle Iraqi people power is the Western press."
US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld recently told journalist Jim Lehrer of the American public broadcaster PBS: "We're up against an enemy that understands that they can't win anything in Iraq. They cannot win a battle. The only place they can win is in Washington, DC. And they know that."

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