The U.S.\u00a0media\u2019s Ukraine bias\u00a0has been obvious, siding with the Kiev regime and bashing\u00a0ethnic Russian\u00a0rebels and Russia\u2019s President Putin. But now \u2014 with the scramble to blame Putin for the Malaysia Airlines shoot-down\u00a0\u2014 the shoddy\u00a0journalism has grown truly dangerous.<\/p>\n
In the heat of the U.S. media\u2019s latest war hysteria \u2014 rushing to pin\u00a0blame for the crash of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet on Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin \u2014 there is the same absence of professional skepticism that has marked similar stampedes on Iraq, Syria and elsewhere \u2014 with key questions not being asked or answered.<\/p>\n
The dog-not-barking question on the catastrophe over Ukraine is: what did the U.S. surveillance satellite imagery show? It\u2019s hard to believe that \u2014 with the attention that U.S. intelligence has concentrated on eastern Ukraine for the past half year that the alleged trucking\u00a0of several large Buk anti-aircraft missile systems from Russia to Ukraine and then back to Russia didn\u2019t show up somewhere.<\/p>\n
Yes, there are limitations to what U.S. spy satellites can see. But the Buk missiles are about 16 feet long and they are usually mounted on trucks or tanks. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 also went down during the afternoon, not at night, meaning the missile battery was not concealed by darkness.<\/p>\n
So why hasn\u2019t this question of U.S. spy-in-the-sky\u00a0photos \u2014 and what they reveal \u2014 been pressed by the major U.S. news media? How can the Washington Post run front-page stories, such as the one on Sunday with the definitive title \u201cU.S. official: Russia gave systems<\/a>,\u201d without demanding from these U.S. officials details about what the U.S. satellite images disclose?<\/p>\n