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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (18400)	12/29/2002 4:54:52 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

The problem with the American media is the every tightening corporate control. In TV "news", four corporations are in control. All right wing. GE = NBC, MSNBC, VIACOM = CBS DISNEY = ABC MURDOCH (News Corp) = FOX In radio, the situation is similar, with Clear Channel owing over 1,300 station by itself and other similar concentrated networks stifling any real discourse on the airways. In newspapers, except for certain institutions like the NY Times, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post and a few others, most newspapers are controlled by a small cabal of right wingers, with Rupert Murdock having quite a hand in the cookie jar. Gannett and Knight-Ridder being other behemoths. Independent newspapers are an endangered species. I can't think of a U.S. equivalent to the likes of the Daily Mirror, the Guardian or Die Tageszeitung. And national government policy is designed to further this anti-democratic gigantism, just as it works for the concentration of wealth in other sectors of the economy like retailing where a company like Wal-Mart that is anathema to me and millions of others is the acme of achievement to the Bushista Junta because of the concentration of bribes that are made possible. Re: The media publishes it, but the American people don't grasp what it means until it's repeatedly beaten into their heads. The Bush team understands the importance of the "Big Lie Technique" with a stultified intellectual capacity among the electorate. This is something that the media is perfectly willing to cooperate in disseminating to the masses. It's a perfect world in a way. The masses want to be deceived, and the Bushies and the media are only too willing to oblige. Because they understand that by deceiving the masses with sugar-coated stories and tales of terror that they can control the agenda, the minds of the mindless and flow of funds forever. It a perfectly unholy and unhealthy confederacy of confidence men and willing victims. But it certain doesn't much resemble a "democracy" any longer.

To: jttmab who wrote (18400)	12/29/2002 5:27:35 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 93284

Re: The media publishes it, but the American people don't grasp what it means until it's repeatedly beaten into their heads. Speaking of beating it into their heads, this is an interesting article about how one of the biggest lies in the run-up to Gulf War I, starring Poppy Bush, has now be recycled for the present conflict: fair.org I've read John R. MacArthur's "The Second Front" and found it to be a real eye-opener. Here's an article on the malicious world of PR that we both know is in high gear in the present run-up to war: prwatch.org The best way to fool the American public? Just let George do it..... -Ray

To: jttmab who wrote (18400)	12/29/2002 11:13:46 AM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

We don't want to believe that the US would do anything less than completely hororable. We're mental "children", a country is either all good or all bad. Amen...well said. Americans are conditioned to an either/or mentality from birth, largely created by a media that relies upon conflict to sell its wares: Dems vs GOP Right vs Left Liberals vs Conservatives Cowboys vs Redskins Cops vs Robbers Rich vs Poor Great Taste vs Less Filling Black vs White Ford vs Chevy North vs South Yankees vs Giants PC vs Mac Good vs Evil Lakers vs Kings Kramer vs Kramer VHS vs Betamax Hulk Hogan vs Rick Flair Right vs Wrong Dogs vs Cats Yale vs Harvard Ali vs Frazier We as a culture love absolutes...we love head-to-head conflict between the good guys and the bad guys, winner take all. We've even managed to reduce all political discourse to a struggle between the "Left" and the "Right", "Liberals" vs "Conservatives." No middle ground, no shades of gray, no possibility of some shared overlap of beliefs....you're either for us or you're against us. No wonder we are such an aggressive, bellicose bunch...its us against everyone else!