Have you heard the news out of Iraq?

Have you heard the news out of Iraq? No, of course you haven't and neither have I. The United States military is not letting any news about what they are doing now out of there. I am afraid that the United States is conducting a complete bloodbath there-- Fallujah on a large scale and we won't know the full story for years, if ever. And, for Americans, if it isn't on TV it's not real. And if you are a journalist who might get some news out, they will kill you like they tried to kill Guilia Sregna.

Here is what John Pilger said about Fallujah coverage. Note that the atrocity he mentions is only one example out of hundreds.

An Australian Broadcasting Corporation correspondent, Eric Campbell, recently promoting a book of his adventures, described the broadcast "coverage" of the war in Iraq. "Live satellite is a travesty," he said. "Basically, if [the reporters] are on satellite, they haven't seen anything. The correspondent is read the stories from the wire and told that is what they have to say on air - that's in the majority of cases."

That may help to explain why the horror of the American attack on Fallujah has yet to be reported by all the major broadcasters. By contrast, independent journalists such as Dahr Jamail have reported doctors describing the slaughter by US marines of civilians carrying white flags. This slaughter was videotaped, including the killing of most of a family of 12. One witness described how his mother had been shot in the head and his father through the heart, and how a six-year-old boy standing over his dead parents, crying, was shot dead. None of this has appeared on British television. When asked, a BBC spokesperson said: "The conduct of coalition forces has been examined at length by BBC programmes." That is demonstrably untrue.