On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, "Jeff Strickland" <
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>"Awake" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, "Jeff Strickland" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >Government control of the media. Let's explore that for a moment.
>> >
>> >ABC. CBS. NBC. CNN. MSNBC. FOX
>> >
>> >At least one of these dances to a different drummer, and therefore is not
>> >controlled by the government. Pick one.
>>
>>
>> They are all the same.
>>
>> FOX simply turns up the rightist rhetoric a notch drawing in
>> more assholes. Strip away the loudness and FOX is exactly
>> like CNN, attacking anyone who points out the truth of 9-11,
>> that it was an inside job from start to finish accomplished with
>> carefully planned and placed demolitions rather than jet planes.
>>
>> ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC repeat the big lie,
>> FOX shouts it.
>
>
>They can't all be the same and be "controlled by government"
Read "Into the Buzzsaw" edited by former "60 Minutes" producer
Kristina Borjesson. James Kallstrom of the FBI visited CBS
and ordered her firing for trying to present the viewpoint of the
more than _600_ eyewitnesses on Long Island who all saw
a missile strike TWA 800.
There are many more stories in this anthology about the
publishing and TV media industries in this country and
how they closely work with the government behind the
scenes while pretending to be in opposition.
The book is widely available in libraries in America.
It is widely available because they understand that
Americans do not read such books and all avenues
for discussing this and any book like it on TV are closed
off.
In America, if it is not on TV then it does not exist.
>because the
>content and editorial views are significnatly different.
"One useful way of estimating how little separates the Democratic
and Republican parties, and particularly their presidential nominees,
is to tot up the issues on which there is tacit agreement either as a
matter of principle or with an expedient nod-and-wink that these are
not matters suitable to be discussed in any public forum, beyond pro
forma sloganeering: the role of the Federal Reserve, trade policy,
economic redistribution, the role and budget of the CIA and other
intelligence agencies (almost all military), nuclear disarmament,
allocation of military procurement, reduction of the military budget,
the roles and policies of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund
and kindred multilateral agencies, crime, punishment and the prison
explosion, the war on drugs, corporate welfare, energy policy, forest
policy, the destruction of small farmers and ranchers, Israel, the
corruption of the political system."
- Alexander Cockburn, article : "Nader and the conspiracy of silence", July 22, 2004
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"The operative concept of democracy is revealed very clearly in other
ways as well. Perhaps the most extraordinary was the distinction
between Old and New Europe in the run-up to the Iraq war. The criterion
for membership was so clear that it took real discipline to miss it. Old
Europe -the bad guys- were the governments that took the same stand
as the large majority of the population. New Europe -the exciting hope for
a democratic future- were the Churchillian leaders like Berlusconi and
Aznar who disregarded even larger majorities of the population and
submissively took their orders from Crawford, Texas. The most dramatic
case was Turkey, where, to everyone's surprise, the government actually
followed the will of 95 percent of the population. The official administration
moderate, Colin Powell, immediately announced harsh punishment for this
crime. Turkey was bitterly condemned in the national press for lacking
'democratic credentials'. The most extreme example was Paul Wolfowitz,
who berated the Turkish military for not compelling the government to follow
Washington's orders and demanded that they apologize and publicly recognize
that the goal of a properly functioning democracy is to help the U.S."
- Noam Chomsky, Z-Magazine, Feb 2005
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