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Joshua Scheer
NBC’s Sunday‑show machinery hit a new low this week when Meet the Press host Kristen Welker asked Iran’s foreign minister whether Iran might have bombed its own elementary school — a massacre that even her own network had already traced to a U.S. Tomahawk missile. The exchange, captured and dissected by Useful Idiots, is a case study in how American media manufactures consent for war: erase evidence, launder official lies, and frame the victims as the perpetrators. As the U.S.–Israeli assault on Iran intensifies, the press isn’t just failing; it’s actively participating.
More on this administration’s killing of children — a fact now acknowledged across outlets, including her own network. It makes you wonder whether she ever looks in the mirror and asks herself what she’s become: not a journalist holding power to account, but a willing instrument of a machine that excuses mass death and manufactures confusion to keep the public docile. Whether it’s ignorance, cowardice, or something worse hardly matters when the result is the same — a press corps that launders atrocities and helps desensitize the human race to its own destruction.
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