Information Research Weblog

Thanks to Ron Day for drawing attention to a site that publishes the news that the (American, generally) media do not wish to publish - and that draws attention other constraints operating to limit the freedom of information.

"The Memory Hole" has published pictures of the Iraq war that the newspapers and television have avoided - understandably, to my mind, in some cases, as well as other facts about the conflict that have not been publicized. One of these is the fact that at a press conference both Bush and Blair stated unequivocally - for the first time, to my knowledge - that they had no evidence of a link between Al Quaeda and Saddam Hussein.

However, it is not all about Iraq - there are many more items about censorship and freedom of information in general.

Another, later reference from Ron is Cursor - more on the shortcomings of the American media and the general unwillingness of any reasonable human being to accept the pronouncements of the Bush administration.