Amy Goodman reported this morning – “Although Winter Soldier was held just outside the nation’s capital, it was almost entirely ignored by the American corporate media. A search on the Lexis database found that no major television network or cable news network even mentioned Winter Soldier over the weekend, neither did the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times or most other major newspapers in the country. The editors of the Washington Post chose to cover Winter Soldier but placed the article in the local section.”

On Friday, Democracy Now! broadcast from Winter Soldier. This week, they are playing excerpts from the proceedings.

How can anyone, in Iraq or the US heal from this? As a media outlet we will not ignore the truth about this invasion. As a nation what is our role in the healing process?

To hear the soldiers testimonies visit www.democracynow.org.

You can also hear the testimonies at the IVAW site

http://ivaw.org

I had the privilege of meeting at Camp Casey (the protest group led by Cindy Sheehan and Ann Wright in Crawford, Texas) Iraq war veterans who were already telling their stories. The help given to them by the Viet Nam Veterans against the War (VVAW), the first Gulf War veterans, and Veterans For Peace was inspiring to witness as well.

These indeed are the real patriots. I am very glad that the WIP is willing to link this article about Winter Soldier. And thank goodness for Democracy Now.

The corporate media'a lack of coverage of Winter Soldier is truly frightening. What is happening to US media? Granted we are in an era of corporate control but have the journalists, editors, anchors and producers lost all sense of responsibility

Elisa:

I think that there are individual journalists who are doing what they can, but the editors, anchors, producers, and publishers have created what a friend of mine calls something like the propaganda mechanism of a totalitarian state.

Editors, publishers, and producers appear to be in collusion to keep Americans uninformed and distracted. People I know who read the New York Times daily, but not alternative sources of information or newspapers from other countries, have little knowledge of what is really going on in the world and of the place of the US in the world anymore. The Times suppressed the news about the Bush regime's illegal electronic surveillance of US citizens for a year and only published the story when the journalists who had uncovered it were going public with a book. Fine journalists like those do good work for the Times which then buries their work on back pages and does not follow up.

I have written numerous times to the publisher and editor of the Times and never get so much as a response. I remember thinking on many occasions that the Washington Post could be a propaganda organ for the Bush regime.

The only newspapers that are doing a decent job are the McClatchy chain, but they do not have the status nor the circulation of the Times, the Post, or the LA Times.

Television news is simply beneath contempt these days. Ratings drive production. Fox leads the pack with outright lies repeated ad nauseum. Though PBS has changed and Bill Moyers, who was driven off the air, is back on, it is still not the truly independent voice it was in its early days.

The Times of London carried a major article about Winter Soldier, but few Americans read it. We are experiencing what my friend and professor of communications calls a media lockdown in this country.

I would say that the main stream media have definitely lost all sense of responsibility to the public. They serve their corporate owners.

I am very glad the WIP and other alternative sources of information exist.