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Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Media At Work
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| gofyaself |
It's so comforting to know that we have such a robust selection of independant, objective news gathering organizations to inform the electorate.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenw...edia/index.html
In the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights to be inapplicable to "domestic military operations" within the U.S. The U.S. Attorney General appears to have fabricated a key event leading to the 9/11 attacks and made patently false statements about surveillance laws and related lawsuits. Barack Obama went bowling in Pennsylvania and had a low score.
Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:
"Yoo and torture" - 102
"Mukasey and 9/11" -- 73
"Yoo and Fourth Amendment" -- 16
"Obama and bowling" -- 1,043
"Obama and Wright" -- More than 3,000 (too many to be counted)
"Obama and patriotism" - 1,607
"Clinton and Lewinsky" -- 1,079
More stories about a decade-old scandal and a presidential candidate's night at the bowling alley than about the White House declaring the Fourth Amendment null and void.
Yup, that's about right. |
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| Reverend Tyler |
| Fucking ridiculous |
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| Anogram |
| Anna Nicole Smith had become a big Fox story compared with the other news channels. Ridiculous! |
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| NC-Stern-Mark |
| What the fuck do you expect when corporations control both the Government and the media. :rolleyes: |
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| blue indian |
| Mass media works hand in hand with the government to keep people distracted from what they don't want you to see. If that makes me a conspiracy theorist then I'll own it. |
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| iatebethO |
Quote: Originally posted by Anogram
Anna Nicole Smith had become a big Fox story compared with the other news channels. Ridiculous! |
If I recall, at that time Iraq was going through a particularly bad period. So instead of reporting on our failures in Iraq, Fox concentrated on the Anna Nicole Smith story.
No wonder Fox viewers are the least informed. |
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| JTProcess |
| damn liberal media |
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| Anogram |
This was what Susan Jacoby talked about in her book "The Age of American Unreason."
Title should look familiar. It is a play from Thomas Pain's book "The Age of Reason."
The reason George W Bush was elected wasn't because of some cause it was a symptom. One of the big shit informers that Americans watch is Infotainment. What was posted above is just another example of this. |
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