Jeff Smith's latest column for Recoil, a satire and music magazine distributed around West Michigan, has been published in the commentary section of the site. The column, titled "The Lies Continue: US Media and the War in Iraq...and Iran?" looks at the role of the corporate media in the United States in supporting the United States' occupation of Iraq. It also promotes a campaign by Media Mouse to bring Democracy Now to the public airwaves in Grand Rapids. In the column, Smith writes:
Let's face it folks the media has played a major role in letting the current administration get away with brutalizing the people of Iraq. The major news media in this country instead of just reporting on the latest area soldier who has been killed in Iraq, should get on their fucking knees and ask forgiveness to these military families for contributing to the lie of this war. I mean, I wanna see Lee Van Amyde and Suzanne Geha and the rest of these local media people publicly apologize for not doing their job and holding the government accountable for the reasons they gave in starting a war. Well this isn't likely to happen. Instead the news media now is not only not questioning the ongoing occupation of Iraq and Bush call for a "surge" in US troops, they are going right along with the administration in beating the drums of war against Iran.
