Nexis, which also surveys the Canadian press, found that newspapers owned by CanWest Global Communications, a group that owns the country’s Global Television Network as well as the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen and the Montreal Gazette and several other regional newspapers, were also among the most consistent propagators of the “fascism” paradigm and ranked far ahead of other Canadian outlets in the frequency with which they used keywords such as “appeasement” and “fascist” in connection with Iraq and Iran.
The CanWest Global group is run by members of the Asper family whose foreign-policy views have been linked to prominent hardline neo-conservatives in the US and the right-wing Likud Party in Israel.
Jim Lobe also takes a look at US media and it’s use of inflammatory language to frame debates on foreign and domestic policy, pointing out the Sun Myung Moon Washington Times, Murdoch’s Fox News, The Weekly Standard, The National Review and The American Spectator.
Words like appeasers, Islamofacist, evil, totalitarians. You see them a lot on political blogs, and a lot on religious political blogs, tossed about with gleeful acceptance, as if using them makes them true.
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It happens on both sides of the political divide. Many media outlets, such as Reuters, will shy away from using the word “terrorist” to describe the violent activities of groups like al Qaeda and Hamas. That underuse of pejoratives towards radical Muslims can frame things as much as the overuse of pejoratives by certain usual suspects on the media right.
Moon has gotten his money’s worth. He set out to destroy democracy in America and he spent billions doing it. I guess the trick is to keep pointing your finger at others and hope no one will notice who the real culprit is. So far it has worked.
http://tinyurl.com/gr22c
By the mid-1980s, Moon’s Unification Church had carved out a niche as an acceptable part of the American right. In one speech to his followers, Moon boasted that “without knowing it, even President Reagan is being guided by Father (Moon).” Yet, Moon also made clear that his longer-range goal was the destruction of the U.S. Constitution and America’s democratic form of government. “History will make the position of Reverend Moon clear, and his enemies, the American population and government will bow down to him.” Moon said, speaking of himself in the third person. “That is Father’s tactic, the natural subjugation of the American government and population.”
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1569
Behind the Times
Who Pulls The Strings at Washington’s No. 2 Daily?
By Fred Clarkson
What are the intentions of those who own and control the Washington Times? The Koreagate probe revealed that the Moon organization functions as a highly integrated unit; each component may maintain the appearance of independence as a means towards larger ends. James Whelan believes he was forced out of the paper because he was too independent.
Opposition to constitutional democracy is a theological premise of The Divine Principle, the basic text of Unificationism. Moon’s speeches are riddled with contempt for “American-style democracy,” which he denigrates as “a good nursery for the growth of Communism.” “We must have an automatic theocracy to rule the world,” Moon has declared.
Former top UC official Steve Hassan believes that the Washington Times is a “Trojan horse” within the conservative movement. Hassan told EXTRA!, “Conservative politics is glad to have a voice through the Times, but ultimately it has nothing to do with conservatism. It has to do with fascism.”
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Read this link for where some of the billions originated that Moon pumped into the USA for projects like the Washington Times:
http://tinyurl.com/jyx8v
I agree, it does happen on any side of the political divide.
I agree, they are perjoratives.
I found this convicting - it is written by a Southern Baptist professor, no Southern Baptist in house organs chose to publish it, and I wonder if it because it doesn’t fit the current leadership frames. In asking myself why I’m startled to read this kind of piece from an SBC leader, I am forced to confront my own prejuidices and weaknesses.
http://www.abpnews.com/1309.article