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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (6208)	5/6/2004 11:49:26 AM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

What's up with corporate America these days. It's bad enough that they own [the media]... A curious statement, that. Who (or what) would you have own media outlets, if not private interests? ...and sanitize the media... What is being "sanitized"? Stories about and photos of U.S. soldiers abusing inmates in various Iraqi prisons aren't; there are daily reports of soldiers being killed in bombings and attacks; and, to be sure, polls (however questionable they might be, statistically) reflecting a decreasing public support for the war were being broadcast just this morning. Some weeks back, photos of charred American bodies and limbs were shown in graphic detail via several American media outlets. So, again: what, specifically, is being "sanitized"? ...now they're trying to also limit what information people are able to receive. That's characteristically moronic, bridge-and-tunnel. Do you think that, without Disney, Moore's film won't see the light of day? Or, for that matter, that this publicity hasn't provided even more, and better, marketing ("buzz") for it than had Disney's Miramax simply gone ahead with the cinematic distribution? Is this still America? Home of the free and the brave? In spite of you, it is...but we're losing ground fast. As for being "free", though: under what interpretation of freedom would you obligate Disney - a private company, with all the concomitant, Constitutional property rights of such an entity - to distribute something it doesn't like, isn't comfortable with, or simply refuses to? Would you similarly obligate individuals to accommodate or facilitate works of art or embodiments of personal expressions that they find objectionable? Juxtaposed, are you asserting that Moore has a right to business support from Miramax/Disney? LPS5