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IPFS News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)

U.S. media complicit in Obama’s drone doctrine

02-07-2013 • http://chrisinmaryville.net/

In 2001, when Israel started killing militant Palestinian enemies (and, often, innocent bystanders) with missiles fired from helicopters hovering so high you could barely see them, foreign reporters were urged by the Israeli government to call the practice “targeted killing.” Most of us, including many of my American colleagues, preferred the term “extrajudicial assassination.” We felt we were in the news business, not the euphemism business. Today, 12 years later, the Washington Post carries a front-page headline about the U.S. drone program titled, “Targeted killings face new scrutiny.”

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Reported By Chris Menke

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