THE EIGHT YEAR TAKEOVER OF THE US
MEDIA
All it took to seize total US media
control was money and 8 years time.
From 50 large media companies, down to just six in only eight years. (Viacom and CBS split,
giving us six corporations since this chart's printing.)
The world's most generic news report, Charlie Brooker's
Newswipe. (Good stuff)
This is how it works folks. This is how we are all
dumbed down through the news.
We are conditioned through media programming that we blindly
accept as truth.
The only way to usurp democracy is to fool its people. The
only way to fool the people is to steal their media.
-NewsFocus
Fighting "The Big Lie"
Until people understand how we are led by the media, we will be
led by the media.
Under Or Un-Reported Bombshell Stories That The U.S. Media Fails To Address
Responsibly, If Even At All
Sibel Edmonds allegations, U.S. treason, spying & espionage
ignored.
Military-grade Thermate found in four separate samples of
WTC debris.
Mike Connell suspicious airplane crash (Bush/Rove computer
guru).
Central bank created which will control all middle east
currency.
Cheney runs CIA assassination program out of his office.
Bush-Cheney war crimes were not properly investigated.
FBI faked emergencies to obtain Americans' records.
US using propaganda against its own citizens.
TV networks use military officials with war profiteering ties.
NSA involved in widespread spying on US citizens.
Diebold and ES&S electronic voting software companies
merge.
Anthrax investigation stalled, then dropped after military
link made.
Flight 253 bomber had no passport, was aided by well
dressed man.
I'm so glad that Sen. Al Franken is standing up
against this merger. This is a bad move for democracy in so many ways, and he's
pulling out all the stops to mobilize supporters. He sent out this email
yesterday:
You might have seen in the news, on Twitter, or
on Facebook recently that I'm opposing the NBC/Comcast merger in its current
form. I wanted to write you today to explain why, and to ask for your help.
I have some experience in this industry, and
I flat-out don't trust Comcast and NBC to
operate in the best interest of consumers in Minnesota and around the country
when it comes to this merger. Combining a company who provides
programming and one who provides the pipes that carry said programming would
almost certainly be a raw deal for consumers and independent content producers
alike. ...
The
Lobbying-Media Complex
The Nation, by
Sebastian Jones - 021110
(Excerpt) In a single hour, two men
with blatant, undisclosed conflicts of interest had appeared on MSNBC. The
question is, was this an isolated oversight or business as usual? Evidence
points to the latter.
These
incidents represent only a fraction of the covert corporate influence peddling
on cable news, a four-month investigation by The Nation has found. Since
2007 at least seventy-five registered lobbyists, public relations
representatives and corporate officials--people paid by companies and trade
groups to manage their public image and promote their financial and political
interests--have appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CNBC and Fox Business Network
with no disclosure of the corporate interests that had paid them. Many have been
regulars on more than one of the cable networks, turning in dozens--and in some
cases-- hundreds of appearances. ...
Why is FOX News obvious to everyone except FOX viewers?
O'Reilly
Hosts Jon Stewart On 'The Factor' Stewart Blazes Through FOX News, Takes No Prisoners, Eats Bill O' For
Lunch NewsFocus, by Tim Watts -
020410
For some strange reason, Bill
O'Reilly has decided to look beyond the regular beatings he takes when he visits
the Daily Show Show by bringing Jon Stewart into his studio to be pummeled by
him on FOX turf for a change. One can't really believe the interview was all about
ratings, as their worth is trivial compared to the damage that Stewart is able
to inflict to the nonsense that is the far right narrative of FOX News. It's like
letting a Jedi Master walk into a den of thieves. It is mere child's play for
Stewart. What makes it easy for Stewart is that he A) has a vision that
encompasses all of humanity and not just the privileged elite, 2) he never
strays from the truth, and 3) O'Reilly just doesn't get the debate, nor
understand the world according to the rest of us.
What is most interesting is that
O'Reilly has to actually dissect the interview with FOX commentators afterwards
to see if he won. The funny thing is, neither commentator thinks Bill O' won.
O'Reilly actually stoops so low as to ask a body language expert to see if he
intimidated Stewart, to which she essentially replies, "not at all." The
second part of the interview runs tonight on The O'Reilly Factor.
It's funny that the two liberal intellectuals that
always get the best of Bill O'Reilly
are both comedians, Jon Stewart and Al Franken. (Franken is now a MN Senator.)
NewsFocus: Is
Google going too far in their alleged claim of a free "service" for society?
Have you ever asked yourself who pays for the gazillion petabytes of expensive
hard drive storage to house all of that data? We're talking tons of
information and
video that continually pours in daily, 24/7. Do you realize the inordinate
amount (and cost) of all of the expensive operating bandwidth required to make
Google run? As the old saying goes, "There ain't no free lunch..."
Make no mistake about it, we're not using Google, it is Google
who is using us. The databases that can be built on each individual user
from data mining and usage tracking is more valuable and far more powerful than
most people know.
Many are already up in arms over Google's invasions of privacy,
most notably Google maps invading our personal privacy by illegally
photographing our private property without permission; data that can easily be
exploited and used for criminal endeavors. This type of activity is
clearly prohibited under new Patriot Act laws enacted since 9/11.
People need to seriously start thinking twice about the impact
and reach of this monolithic Goliath, an overnight success story with quarterly
income in the billions. Google has taken its place at the top of, not
just the computer industry, but the world business community as well. Along with
Microsoft, they have each literally conquered the world in such a short
amount of time. Their power is not to be taken lightly.
With A Blind Trust We Let The Media
Dominate Our lives
The problem today with society
You've got to get mad if you want
justice
Air America Radio Closing, Filing
For Bankruptcy BusinessWeek -
012110 Air
America Radio, a progressive radio network that once aired
commentary from Al Franken and Rachel Maddow, is shutting down.
The company founded in April...
Liberal radio's Air America shuts
down live programming Los Angeles
Times -
012210 Air
America Media, the liberal network formed in 2004 to try to
counteract the conservative tilt of talk radio, shut down live
programming operations...
The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
- William Colby, CIA Director 1973-1976
The Takeover Of Our Media
Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media
Manipulation
The National Expositor, Mary Louise on 03 August,
2007
The CIA's secret
activities, covert missions, and connections of control are all
done under the pretense and protection of national security with
no accountability whatsoever, at least in their minds.
Considering the public is held accountable for everything we
think, say, and do there is something seriously wrong with this
picture. The CIA is the President's secret army, who have been
and continue to be conveniently above the law with unlimited power
and authority, to conduct a reign of terror around the globe. The
"old boy network" of socializing, talking shop, and tapping each
other for favors outside the halls of government made it
inevitable that the CIA and Corporate America would become allies,
thus the systematic infiltration and takeover of the media. ...
MOCKINGBIRD
- The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA
What Really Happened - by
Alex Constantine
As terrible as it is to live in a nation where the press in known
to be controlled by the government, at least one has the advantage
of knowing the bias is present, and to adjust for it. In the
United States of America, we are taught from birth that our press
is free from such government meddling. This is an insidious lie
about the very nature of the news institution in this country. One
that allows the government to lie to us while denying the very
fact of the lie itself.
Once you know how you are being manipulated
and controlled, you are much better off in understanding the
events happening around you and the forces that work around us.
Jesse Ventura Takes the Soaring Interest in Conspiracy Theory to TV -- And
Viewers Are Flocking to It
Bringing formerly taboo issues to TV, the former Minnesota
governor and professional wrestler's show has caught on. Conspiracy theorists
probably aren't surprised. Alternet, by Daniela Perdomo - 013110 Jesse Ventura has worn many hats over his lifetime. In
addition to being a body-slamming professional wrestler and one-term governor of
Minnesota, he was a Navy SEAL in Vietnam and a bodyguard for the Rolling Stones.
In his latest career move, he is a conspiracy theory investigator.
His television show, "Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura" premiered on TruTV
in early December delivering the 17-year-old channel's largest-ever premiere
audience -- 1.6 million people -- and maintaining it during subsequent episodes.
It held onto high Nielsen ratings despite being panned by critics because the
masses love it. ... (more)
The program is a Turner
Broadcasting / Time Warner production and is broadcast on
DirecTV channel 246. Check your local TV listings for a cable
channel in your area.
For those unable to view the
program, you can view the programs at the following links:
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of
those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should
have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it
mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. -Haile Selassie
These are the stories our failed corporate
media should be covering. (Read
More)
NewsFocus: Sadly, they missed the 9/11 WTC explosive
thermate story as well as the FBI translator Sibel Edmonds'
testimony about
Congress Members In criminal conspiracy, espionage, bribery and
sexual blackmail. Also says Bin Laden worked for CIA right up to
9/11.
OutFoxed: How Rupert
Murdoch Is Destroying American Journalism A review of
Robert Greenwald's new documentary investigating the Fox News Channel
Alternet, by Don Hazen 071004
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, a
devastating new documentary that exposes Bush's biggest cheerleader ...
OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism
Google to limit free news access Newspaper publishers will now be able to
set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read
through Google, the company has announced
BBC.com 120209
The concession
follows claims from some media companies that the search engine
is profiting from online news pages.
Under the First
Click Free program, publishers can now prevent unrestricted
access to subscription websites.
Users who click on
more than five articles in a day may be routed to payment or
registration pages. ...
Networks Still Using Military Analysts Without
Identifying Massive Conflicts Of Interest
InformationClearinghouse.info,
by Laura Bassett
Military strategy is a frequent topic on TV in the wake
of President Obama's announcement that he will send more troops to Afghanistan
now -- and start bringing them out by mid-2011. But few television viewers have
any idea that some of what they're hearing originates from men who are literally
profiting from the war.
Continue
Fox admits: Only 9 hours of news a day
RawStory.com, by
David Edwards - Friday,
October 30th, 2009 -- 8:14 am The
Daily Show's Jon Stewart tore into Fox News Channel Thursday,
highlighting the extent to which he believes it serves as a
communications arm for the Republican Party, and alleging that
the line between Fox's "opinion" programming and "news"
programming aren't as disparate as the channel claims.
"According to Fox, the weekday news programming -- and this is
according to Fox -- runs from 9:00 to 4:00 p.m. and from 6:00 to
8:00 p.m. for a total of nine newsy hours a day," Stewart notes.
O'Reilly Slams Law & Order Producer (NewsFocus: The Truth
Has A Funny Way of Catching Up To You)
Yahoo News
Episode calls out
right-wing hate pundits. Line from
shows says, "Limbaugh, Beck,
O'Reilly, all of 'em, they are like a cancer spreading ignorance
and hate...They've convinced folks that immigrants are the
problem, not corporations that fail to pay a living wage or a
broken health care
system..."
The Right Wing
Conservative Media of Lies And Disinformation
The FOX crew is doing their best to divide "we the people."
Proposed Web video restrictions cause outrage in Italy
The Industry Standard, Philip Willan, IDG News Service
- 01.15.2010
New rules to be introduced by government decree will require
people who upload videos onto the Internet to obtain authorization from the
Communications Ministry similar to that required by television broadcasters,
drastically reducing freedom to communicate over the Web, opposition
lawmakers have warned. ...
The Daily Show: Lou Dobbs Interview
CrooksandLiars.com, by
Heather Thursday Nov 19, 2009 2:00pm
From
The Daily Show, Jon Stewart's interview with Lou Dobbs. I
love that Stewart hit him right off the bat for why the right
only collectively freaks out every time a Democratic president
is elected to office. ...
President Barack Obama has tapped a former top
aide of his predecessor George W. Bush to a key post on a
board overseeing government-sponsored international
broadcasting. ...
Just minutes after noon, on January 20, 2009, "hope" arrived for
Constitutionalists and supporters of its First Amendment. A
slight, little-noticed,
but exceedingly noteworthy paragraph appeared on the new
Administration's White House website
"Technology" page.
"Encourage diversity in the ownership of broadcast media," the
paragraph began, "promote the development of new media outlets
for expression of diverse viewpoints, and clarify the public
interest obligations of broadcasters who occupy the nation's
spectrum."
After more than a decade of private corporatization of virtually
every inch of bandwidth across the public airwaves, a new day
seemed to be dawning with a new Administration's indication that
they might reverse years of cynical, self-serving mismanagement
of the people's airwaves by a few, very large, very far-right
leaning corporations who had been granted priceless government
largesse in the form of broadcast licenses without the
responsibility of serving the public interest in exchange. ... (Read
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FOX News Has Never Been Fair Or Balanced
(They Aren't News Either)
A right wing Republican political opinion network
is all FOX has ever been.
Daily Show Takes FOX News To Task For Hypocrisy On DC
March Stewart Calls
Out FOX For Not Covering DC Gay March, Especially Since
FOX Lied And Said Other Networks Didn't Cover Their Own
FOX Instigated 9/12 March NewsFocus, 101509 Leave it to the folks at FOX News to not carry a
75,000 person gay march in Washington DC, even though it
was the same size as their Glenn Beck initiated 9/12
march. At the time of the Beck march, FOX not only 1)
grossly lied/exaggerated the number of people present, 2)
claimed no other media organizations covered their march,
and 3) then had the gall to actually use a screen shot
from CNN in a piece that claimed no other networks were
there, including CNN. (See the CNN Rick Sanchez video
farther down this page.) Thank goodness we have the
multiple Emmy
winning Daily Show and Jon Stewart to hold them
accountable and expose their shameless bald faced lies for public
viewing. Enjoy the clip. :o)
The new guidelines declare that bloggers
who fail to disclose "material connections" to companies they
write about can be fined … wait for it … up to $11,000 per
violation! Wow. I asked Julie O'Neill, a former staff attorney
for the FTC in the New York regional office and now an attorney
in the Washington, D.C., office of law firm Morrison & Foerster,
about these new rules. ...
Bloggers and the Federal
Shield Law Daily Kos (blog) -
Sep 30, 2009
For citizen journalists, the federal shield law front was
looking good for a while. Although the House of Representatives
version of the bill, ...
Hanging citizen journalists out
to dry: shield-law amendment excludes unpaid bloggers
Pamshouseblend.com, by:
Pam Spaulding Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 08:00:00 AM EDT
A recent amendment to the federal shield bill being considered
in the Senate will exclude non-"salaried" journalists and
bloggers from the proposed law's protections. Well, read the
fine print to see how citizen journalists are left legally
hanging out to dry. Schumer's amendment draws a distinct line
between bloggers and "real journalists" that: ...
The Vaunted Protector
of Our Democracy Is Long Gone Few Know of The Concerted Plan To Influence The Media In This
Country
NewsFocus, By Tim Watts 031209
In the beginning we had the Gutenberg printing
press. Books and newspapers were the information king, but
printed material was often voluminous and disbursement was slow.
The dawning of the technical age of media
allowed the spread of information at a much faster pace than
ever before in the history of mankind. With the advent of the
electronic age came the telegraph and then the telephone, with radio,
television, cable, and satellite to follow. The flow of news and
information could now travel instantly around the globe,
allowing thoughts and ideas to be shared with lightning speed.
The information age was born. ... (Read
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Plato’s
‘The
Allegory of the Cave‘
is from book VII of his most famous work, The Republic. He begins
‘The Allegory‘
by describing a dark cave found underground where a group of
people are sitting in ‘one long row with their backs to the
cave’s entrance’. They are chained to their chairs from an early
age and all that the humans can see is the distant cave wall in
front of them. Their view of reality is completely based upon
this limited view of the cave which but an unenlightened view of
the real world. ... (Read
More)
When Graffiti Isn't Destructive Gee, Why In The World Would Anyone Possibly
Pick On FOX?
A FOX billboard after some roadside corrective
editing.
Graffiti certainly isn't to be encouraged,
especially when it's destructive and socially rebellious, but
there are occasions when a productive message can be tolerated,
such as, No War, Make Peace, Love Is The Answer, etc. You
have to smile just a little when the graffiti crowd takes on the
Faux News Network, also known as FOX News. When CEO and owner
Rupert Murdoch says he can 'print or say anything he wants'
in his media outlets, 'whether it's the truth or not,'
it is somewhat heartening to once in awhile see America's
disinformation and propaganda network called on the carpet.
Anyone with media experience (not to mention integrity and a
moral compass) knows better than to work for Faux News.
Desperation does call a few, but fortunately not the best, nor
the brightest. (Op/Ed)
CNN's Rick Sanchez Calls FOX
News What They Are, Liars
If you only watch FOX and don't look at other media, you'll never realize FOX lies
Glenn Beck And Left-Right Confusion Salon.com,
by Glen Greenwald - Tuesday Sept. 22, 2009
08:23 EDT
Last night during his CBS interview
with Katie Couric,
Glenn Beck said he may have voted for Hillary Clinton and
that "John McCain would have been worse for the country than
Barack Obama." This comment predictably spawned
confusion among some liberals and
anger among some conservatives. But even prior to that,
there had been a palpable increase in the right-wing attacks on
Beck -- some motivated by
professional competition for the incredibly lucrative industry
of right-wing opinion-making, some due to
understandable discomfort with his
crazed and irresponsible rhetoric, but
much of it the result of Beck's growing deviation from GOP (and
neoconservative) dogma. Increasingly, there is great
difficulty in understanding not only Beck's political
orientation but, even more so, the movement that has sprung up
around him. Within that confusion lies several important
observations about our political culture, particularly the
inability to process anything that does not fall comfortably
into the conventional "left-right" dichotomy through which
everything is understood. ... (Read
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During times of
universal deceit, telling the truth becomes
a revolutionary act.
-- George Orwell
CNN Bans Talk Radio Hosts Examiner.com -
081209
Some prominent CNN figures host daily radio shows,
among them host Lou Dobbs, apparently exempt from the ban. Others
presumably exempt are regular political ...
The corporate media in the United States are
ignoring valid news stories, based on university quality
research. It appears that certain topics are simply forbidden
inside the mainstream corporate media today. To openly cover
these news stories would stir up questions regarding
“inconvenient truths” that many in the US power structure want
to avoid.
For example, current research indicates that public schools in
the United States are more segregated today than they have been
in more than four decades. According to a new Civil Rights
report, published at the University of California, Los Angeles,
schools in the US are 44 percent non-white, and minorities are
rapidly emerging as the majority of public school students in
the US. Latinos and blacks, the two largest minority groups,
attend schools more segregated today than during the civil
rights movement forty years ago. Millions of non-white students
are locked into “dropout factory” high schools, where huge
percentages do not graduate. The most severe segregation in
public schools occurs in the Western states, including
California—not in the South, as many people believe. Most
non-white schools are segregated by poverty as well as race.
Schools in low-income communities remain highly unequal in terms
of funding, qualified teachers, and curriculum.
Other taboo stories include civilian death rates in Iraq and
questions on 9/11. ...
Where did these covert instructions to the media originate? The
United States was appropriately proud of its constitution, built
on the foundation of balance of power so that no group or person
would be able to achieve absolute power. The President, the
Congress and the Courts in concert with a Free press were
supposed to make sure that the public received the kind of
government that the American Revolution was fought over.
However, in 1947 Congress had passed The National Security Act
and that's where the weakness lay. The CIA, the bastard child of
the Act, was effectively beyond the control of checks and
balances. It is in the nature of Power that it defends its
interests in whatever way it deems necessary, and Power here
found a useful instrument, an organization without oversight
which could easily be taken over and manipulated for the
purposes of the powerful. (From Armageddon Explained or
the Education of an Atheist)
The Century of
the Self How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate
a mass-consumer
society.(NewsFocus: The media has
employed these same tools to fool you also)
InformationClearinghouse.com Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the
masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of
political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the
pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal.
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Learn About That Which Has Been Hidden In Our World Discover how the truth has been twisted, slanted and
purposefully kept from you
The
New York Times story about MSNBC's corporate parent, General
Electric, forcing the network to soften its criticism of Fox
News has generated a lot of buzz over the weekend. But what's so
telling about the story and the residual chatter is that, with
the exception of
Glenn Greenwald's typically terrific coverage, it largely
misses the newsiest - and most taboo - part of the whole
brouhaha.
What the Times story and the aftershock gossip
focuses on is the personality feud and new detente between
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. That's
supposedly the "news." And yet the real story is the
heavy-handed intervention by the CEO of General Electric
effectively forcing MSNBC's news team off a crucially important
set of stories - namely, Fox News' politicization/Republicanization
of media.
For years, Establishment media voices like
Charlie Rose (yes, the same Charlie Rose who the Times story
says played a direct role in the corporate parents' intervention
at MSNBC and Fox) have
insisted that it's a black-helicopter-style conspiracy
theory to assert that corporate parent companies
pressure/impact/limit the newsrooms they control.
But, of course, the evidence has become
overwhelming in the last 15 years. ... (More)
Since Walter Cronkite's passing, new focus has
been put on the decline of legitimate news sources in America.
The big three networks have fallen the way of the corporate
cable news/propaganda networks and people are turning to
alternate sources like The Daily Show to get a little truth with
their news. That's why it came as no surprise that Jon Stewart
was voted Most Trusted Newscaster In America
in a recent Time poll.
Not to take away from Stewart's
accomplishments, but it does speak volumes about the way the
American people view the major networks and their "news"
departments -- and that they would take the word of a comedian
more seriously than high profile, highly paid network news
anchors.
Stewart has long taken on the corporate media,
beginning with
his notorious smackdown of the feckless Tucker Carlson on
CNN's Crossfire in 2004, which lead to the eventual demise of
the show. Since then, he has been relentless in his pursuit of
the truth, and C&L has been posting videos from The Daily Show
for years, along with many other blogs, big and small.
Time Magazine has recently published a hit piece unabashedly
refuting some of the biggest conspiracies of modern time, lumped
together with a few 20th century rumors. They did it with no investigation whatsoever, yet the
folks at Time just know that the following
stories (below) are pure craziness. Way to put some journalistic integrity
into your work Time Magazine. To lump six or seven worthwhile
mysteries in with a few stories that are clearly unverifiable, or
perhaps just verifiably stupid, they try to discredit the truth in
all of them. That's how disinformation and propaganda works.
No matter that a motorcycle cop had
his radio microphone keyed and picked up (and recorded) numerous
shots at Dealy Plaza, all too close together to have come from a
single bolt-action carbine rifle, or that over one hundred
eyewitnesses mysteriously died within a year of coming forward
with grassy knoll testimony, Time Magazine knows that the JFK
assassination is all just poppycock.
It apparently doesn't matter that
three buildings fell at near free fall speed through the path of
most resistance on 9/11, or that a military grade cutting charge
was found in four separate samples of WTC debris, or that parts
found in the debris do not match the airplanes said to be
responsible for them, Time Magazine says that they know better,
even without providing research of their own.
It's no big deal that the Federal
Reserve is not run by the US government, or that the Bilderberg
group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, or
Bohemian Grove members have designs on controlling the world, Time
Magazine's lack of personal investigation makes all of this
untrue, just because they say so.
Forget all the medical research
that shows AIDS is an engineered virus, Time Magazine surely knows
better without ever having to look or do a journalistic
investigation on their own.
The fact that they didn't live
during the time of Jesus has no bearing on what they know
about his personal relationships. Time Magazine knows better.
While this author has no definitive
research one way or the other regarding a reptilian race, I am
fairly convinced that a great number of Jews were persecuted at
the hands of Hitler because I saw firsthand photos taken by a WWII
intelligence vet. But throw in a stupid pop rumor regarding Paul McCartney and
Time has done its best to lump all the other mysteries into one
big vat of bullshit. If anyone should know about bullshit, it
would have to be Time Magazine.
Too bad they didn't try to refute
Operation
Mockingbird or the fact that their own magazine is
a mouthpiece for the CIA. Hey, maybe that's because it's real and
not a conspiracy. Way to go Time!
A quick explanation for the lemmings who trust media implicitly
Wake Up And Smell The
Media This Is Nothing More Than A Thought To Ponder
The only way to usurp Democracy is to fool the people. The only
way to fool the people is to steal their news media. Once you
control the information flow to the people, you will then be able
to control the people in any perceived free democratic society.
[ see movie...
OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism posted below ]
The Difficulty of Being an Informed American
By Paul Craig Roberts January 08, 2009
The American print and TV media has never been very
good. These days it is horrible. If a person intends to be
informed, he must turn to foreign news broadcasts, to Internet
sites, to foreign newspapers available on the Internet, or to
alternative newspapers that are springing up in various cities. A
person who sits in front of Murdoch's Fox "News" or CNN or who
reads the New York Times is simply being brainwashed with
propaganda.
Before
conservatives nod their heads in agreement, I'm not referring to
"the liberal media." I mean the propaganda that issues from the US
government and the Israel Lobby.
It was neoconservative Bush
regime propaganda fed to America through Judith Miller and the
New York Times and through Murdoch's Fox "News" that
convinced Americans that they were in danger from a small secular
Arab country half way around the globe called Iraq. It was the
American media that convinced Americans that getting rid of
dangerous "weapons of mass destruction," weapons that did not
exist in Iraq, would be a cakewalk paid for by Iraqi oil revenues.
... (
Read more... )
The Art of Spin
This panel discussion reveals a lot on manipulation of the masses.
Our
forefathers were acutely aware of the dangers of a biased or
partisan media.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the
man who reads nothing but newspapers. -Thomas
Jefferson
The
Documentary Spin
An interesting look at how the media shapes
and presents the world to us.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is
that good men do nothing. -
Edmund Burke
The Start of
a
Problem With Television
Television has often been misused by some to shape the
opinions of the
public.
Awarded to David Barstow of The New York Times for
his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals,
working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by
the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them
also had undisclosed ties to companies that
benefited from policies they defended.
Republicans Admit FOX Works For Them Like we didn't know this already. At least they
finally admitted it.
Defeating YouTube Censorship Simple steps any internet user can take to
reduce GooTube’s stranglehold on information
The Corbett Report James
Corbett 26 February, 2009
When YouTube burst onto the scene in February 2005, it wasn't long
before this simple concept revolutionized the way people connect
to each other and the way they define "the media." As
Vancouver 9/11 Truth activist Michael Hey told The Corbett
Report in a
recent interview: "I shudder to think where we would be right
now if we didn't have YouTube, or if we didn't have the various
video hosting services that we have," he said. "Think of the
example of Montebello in 2007 where there were agents provocateurs
who
were outed by citizen journalists." ...
Jesse Ventura has worn many hats over his lifetime. In
addition to being a body-slamming professional wrestler and one-term governor of
Minnesota, he was a Navy SEAL in Vietnam and a bodyguard for the Rolling Stones.
In his latest career move, he is a conspiracy theory investigator.
