The Castle Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Castle

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: TimF who wrote (589)	11/19/2002 12:02:46 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) of 7936

I don't like making wild accusations about the government (such as "the CIA controls the media") I certainly don't like it either. This strong influence allows (a)making sure stories they wish to get airplay do get airplay and (b)stories that are desired to be buried get buried. We've gotten to the point that the media is basically an echo chamber of government. Try reading any major papers on any day, and increasingly all government stories from the first paragraph to the last has the phrase, "government officials said...", anonymous of course. The media has entirely lost its function of monitoring and investigating the centers of power. As a result, Americans are bamboozled into increasing taxes, massive debt, lies about where the expenditures are and an almost total absence of accountability. That influence doesn't just come from intelligence services, it comes from every agency and official quite naturally looking out for themselves. The problem is that the concentration of media, and contamination by covert means serve to gut and punish any real investigation of the foxes in charge of the chickencoop.

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next