And just like Magic, the effect appears

In a post below we discussed how George Bush's open declaration of wanting to commit war crimes is reported internationally, but completely muzzled on this side of the Atlantic - where everyone follows and is intimidated by Rupert's gang of thugs and intellectual midgets.

Here's the effect of a decade of shitty news coverage:

Arabic-language media have an unprecedented chance to take over as the world's premier news source because trust in their US counterparts plummeted following their "shameful coverage" of the war in Iraq, a conference heard today.

The US media reached an "all-time low" in failing to reflect public opinion and Americans' desire for trusted information, instead acting as a "cheerleader" for war, said Amy Goodman, the executive producer and host of US TV and radio news show Democracy Now!, at a news forum organised by al-Jazeera.

Newsweek's Paris bureau chief, Christopher Dickey, said the US media were dying because of cutbacks and weren't interested in covering the world outside America.

It is truly fantastic that at the SAME TIME we are invading other countries and engaged in an endless series of fuck ups abroad that the American media is NOT interested in international stories.

How fucking convenient.