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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (14247)12/2/2004 3:57:15 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 20773
 
Re: More folks should be forced to watch Frontline

Hmmm, your Google affinity charts were fascinating, but that isn't the real story.

What Google does to "manufacture consent" is overt.

The powers behind the Frontline editorial board are far more subtle.

Notice please that Frontline fired Lowell Bergmann. Notice please that Frontline is the "great White hope" that many of us subscribers to Ramparts, the I.F. Stone Weekly and other honest publications hoped would be PBS's answer to getting the truth out to the American public on a much larger stage.

To say that the suppression of progressive viewpoints is the agenda among the current executive managers would be obvious to the cognoscenti. But it is not obvious to the generations who have come after "The Masses" among other publications.

As we have devolved into a TV driven society, our political conversation has been channeled, diverted and subverted by a handful of rich oligarchs who are more determined than we democrats in the quest to diminish the capacity of the American public to engage in intellectual realism, and to diminish the breadth of viewpoints that formerly were available to the general public.

Thus we have among us a narcissistic, superstitious audience being created which is ever more fair game for the oligopolists who would destroy the American middle class for the sake of a fast buck.

Is Google honest? Obviously not. Time for us to move on.
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