5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff.
Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.
At 2:53 Jay-Z steps in and the applause doubles as he blasts through his political lyrics:
“Turn on your radio, out in Berlin walls are falling, revolution is calling, out in Iran, an election a fix, out in Rwanda a genocide is sick. Turn on you’re radio, lets all harmonise to the people in power, hear an army cries. Buck Buck Buck be the sound of their tune, dont make have to make some mother-f*cking schools. Teach the youth of what lies ahead, teach the truth … cmon… get up stand up … stand up for you’re rights” read more
Ted Turner has railed for decades about the negative impact centralization
and giant mergers have had on the media, especially the news media. He
spoke eloquently about this in the July/August 2004 issue of Washington
Monthly in his article “My Beef with Big Media” He, and many producers like
myself, believe that overly strident, profit-seeking corporations, with
their blindly zealous attention to their bottom lines, are the primary force
that is homogenizing American media and public knowledge into a frightening,
potentially dangerous, unenlightened glob. For the average citizen, getting
the news read more
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