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Article: Beat the devil. (critique of the press) (column)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- March 9, 1985
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"Reagan wants to remove the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, not oust them." This was Connie Chung on an NBC "Newsbreak" the night of Reagan's press conference, when he gave up pretending and said straightforwardly he wanted to invade. Chung's line pretty accurately sums up the relationship of the U.S. media to Reagan in these dark days. They will parrot, mostly without criticism, anything he says, however ludicrous it might be. You have to go back to the Nazis to find expressions of thuggish intent so laced with ignorance and mendacity as those made by Reagan and George Shultz in recent days. And the press is utterly complicit and utterly cowed.
The left says that ...