Corporate media love to manipulate and create news stories and hype, distort and falsify them to attract large audiences, thus they manage news as per their whims and fancies. Moreover, the bigger the news or event the worse comes the reporting, and no matter how often they’re fooled, the viewers or the madding crowds rely on proved unreliable sources like US cable and broadcast TV, as well as corporate broadsheets and popular magazines publishing rubbish not fit to print. After Obama’s May day announcement, round the clock coverage featuring the death of a dead man with no one allowed on to refute it. While separating fact from fiction, the significant facts from David Ray Griffin’s important book, Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive?, provides objective and testimonial evidence of Osama’s death in December 2001, likely from kidney failure, not a Special Forces hit squad getting their man then or now. Similarly, there is a couple of such evidences such as, Forensic evidence that post-9/11 videos and audios were fake, Bin Laden’s role as a CIA asset, as well as called “Enemy Number One,” using him advantageously both ways. Also, reports of his 2001 hospitalisations in Pakistan and Dubai where (in July) the emirate’s CIA station chief visited him in his hospital room. Why not if he was a valued asset, his likely status until his natural, not violent, death? Nonetheless, Western politicians and media, notably America’s, never miss a chance to report fiction, not fact, especially on headline news like bin Laden’s death, a decade after it happened.
Mohd Ziyaullah Khan
Nagpur, M’rashtra