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To: Joe S Pack who wrote (62508)10/25/2004 1:38:51 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Respond to of 89467
 
Nat,

Re: It is like people's spectrum in USA being is taken over by the new media crooks and they don't even let elections held freely. Now our spineless politicians are enslaved by them

Interesting perspective. My only quibble would be that our politicians are actually quite bold in accepting the bribes and collusion being offered by corrupt media moguls like Rupert Murdock.

What is spineless (as well as self-dealing) is the media itself, which the Founding Fathers saw as the public's counterbalance to the temptations to corruption of public officeholders.

Media has become a monstrosity. Here's part of the antidote:

mediachannel.org
mediamatters.org
newsdissector.org