watto
14.12.03, 21:23
www.thoughtcrimenews.com/bushrape.htm
In the western world, only one newspaper reports the suicide of the woman who
accused George W Bush of rape
by Simon Aronowitz
Saturday 13th December 2003
Despite the enormity of the story, a virtual news blackout has remained in
place since Margie Schoedinger first filed charges against George W Bush in
2002. Schoedinger had accused Bush of rape and other sexual crimes against
both her and her husband, only one publication in the USA saw fit to print
anything about her or her allegations. That publication was her local newspaper.
Her subsequent suicide earlier this year raised many eyebrows amongst those
who learned of her death via the internet. Even though the sequence of events
was bizarre, again the American media ignored Schoedinger completely.
However, the US press were not alone. Both the (London) Times newspaper and
the BBC as well as other major news organisations in the UK were furnished
with the story and sources for the original court filings. This should have
garnered some attention for the story from the big media sources, if only to
ridicule the allegations. Instead, in the same way the American media served
its audience a stream of controlled news, so too did the British media by
pretending Schoedinger didn't exist.
Schoedinger apparently committed suicide on 22nd September of 2003 but her
death only attracted new attention on the internet in November of 2003. Only
now has one small-circulation newspaper in the UK run the story of her demise.
It found the story so newsworthy it ran its headline on the front page next to
the title header.
The New Nation serves the black community of London and, according to a
spokesperson for the newspaper, has a circulation of 25,000. This spokesperson
also stated that the newspaper had confirmed the details of the story before
publishing and apologised for the misprinting of Schoedinger's death as 12th
December 2003.
That a newspaper in the English-speaking part of the world has finally deemed
this story worthy of publication finally gives legitimacy to it. If one paper
can cover this then so can others.
Many regular readers of `quality' newspapers such as the Times, Telegraph and
even the NY Times have never heard of Margie Schoedinger. Her tale illustrates
how the news available on the internet is often of greater value than that
which is paid for. Editors should be asked by their paying readers and viewers
why this story has been censored.
One can only deduce that the likes of Rupert Murdoch, Lord Conrad Black and
Greg Dyke of the BBC have chosen to keep their political masters happy by
blacking out any reference to the allegations and apparent suicide of Margie
Schoedinger.
Hopefully the public will learn that what is news by the standards of
big-money radio, television and print may not be news according to their
readers. The support of independent media and its reference as a reliable
source is increasingly the only effective way to inform the public of the real
events in the world.