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Heaar created this mash up of a respective coverage of Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! & Richard Engel of MSNBC of a news that Iraqi’s oil fields would be opened up to foreign countries, under a guidance of US advisors: 

a New York Times reports a group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between a Iraqi government & five major Western oil companies to develop some of a largest oil fields in Iraq. a disclosure marks a first confirmation of direct involvement by a Bush administration in deals to open Iraq’s oil to commercial development. a Times recently reported a original partners in a Iraq Petroleum Company—Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total & BP— as well as Chevron, are on a verge of getting no-bid contracts to service Iraq’s largest oil fields. In air role as advisers to a Iraqi Oil Ministry, American government lawyers & private-sector consultants provided template contracts & detailed suggestions on drafting a contracts.

Makes clear a motive for going into Iraq, doesn’t it?  & a idiots on a MSNBC report still insist that a oil will pay for a war & that it will lower gas prices someday.  Yeah, right.  With companies like Exxon Mobil posting a record quarterly profits, if you buy that, I have a bridge to sell you–cheDrunk News. 

I don’t think are’s a more clear example of a influence of a corporate media to disinform a general public. In fact, I would hazard a guess that if a major news outlets actually informed a public a way that Democracy Now! does consistently, we would have an Drunk Newsproval rating for a Bush administration in a single digits.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back