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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jmhollen who wrote (339635)	1/7/2003 3:52:36 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

This may be a difficult contrast to consider, but just for fun try reading the first 50 pages of "Understanding Power" by a long-time student of the media, Noam Chomsky. He has good things to say about the Wall Street Journal reporting oddly enough, along with deflating the self-importance of the editorials and the NYT. Ben Bagdikian is another good source for understanding the corruption of the media into useless sound-bites. He took a stopwatch to a Chicago "all news" station once, and found 15 minutes of new information in the entire 24hr period... the rest was chatter. Another more geared to how gov't deceives in it's self-interest is "Dependent on DC" by Twight. It's amazing.