April 12, 2003
Prime Time in Baghdad
The Bush administration took over Iraqi television last week in order to broadcast greetings from the President and his British sidekick Tony Blair. How thoughtful of them.
The shows were beamed onto Baghdadís Channel 3, one of the deposed governmentís frequencies. The Pentagon-controlled programming is part of a campaign to persuade Iraqis that their country is being liberated, not occupied, and that self-government and free enterprise are just around the corner.
The administration launched the channel the day after Husseinís government collapsed and US troops took control of Baghdad. This isnít go to be a one-channel schedule. US officials are already planning to open a second television channel with subtitled versions of the three major networksí evening newscasts. Who needs sitcoms when the channel is also reported to include White House, State Department and Pentagon briefings.
According to Norman J. Pattiz, chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the new channelís mission will be to give Iraqiís ìan example of what a free press in the American tradition really is.î
This invasion of American media into the heart of Baghdad is the real war: the war to win the peopleís minds, to replace not only their government, but the very fabric of their culture. Right now, Iraqis are dancing in the streets as they bring home booty from Saddamís palaces and government agencies, but soon the excitement will be over, a newly US appointed leader will be in place, and the people will settle down to a steady diet of manufactured American news talk and government announcements.
This, my friends, is democracy in action for the 21st century.
Randall Packer
Secretary, US Department of Art & Technology
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