Propaganda talk

Thank you, David Shaw, for an excellent article, “Subverting the Press With Propaganda on the Rise” [Jan. 16], on the frightening use of the media by this administration for government propaganda. It seems that you are now one among the way too few in the media who have been willing to actually report anything remotely challenging to this administration, particularly as it pertains to their use (or misuse) of journalists, broadcasters, reporters and their ilk.

Your column really belongs on the front page due to the urgency of bringing awareness to the majority of the populace of these scary abuses. The media must begin to again perform its duty as the watchdog for the people, instead of the promoter of the lies, deceptions, misdirections and smoke screens of a frightening band of rogues.

Barbara Erickson

Westlake Village

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Perhaps the Bush administration thinks that by reducing our freedoms here in the U.S., we can reduce the reason for terrorists to be envious, thus reducing the violence.

Richard Hubbard

Orange

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Our press corps has behaved with craven complicity over the past decade or so. In what appears to have been a misguided effort to prove they’re not “liberal,” they have instead proven to be useful tools of the right wing.

Michael K. Finnigan

Encino