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  • Media is doing our thinking for us

    02/23/2007 9:37:21 AM PST · by DJ Taylor · 17 replies · 670+ views
    Hernando Today (Tampa Tribune) ^ | January 22, 2007 | JOHN REINIERS
    Nikita Khrushchev remarked to the New York Times on Sept. 29, 1957 that "The press is our chief ideological weapon." So it came as no surprise when North Vietnam's leader Ho Chi Minh echoed Mao Tse-tung's truism that by using the "media and elitist peace activists, an enemy of America could convince the American people" that they couldn't win a war. The trick was not to defeat the military - they knew they couldn't - but rather to use the media and activists to break the will of the American people. And the beat goes on. Pulitzer Prize winning liberal...
  • Network News Control a Threat to America!, Agnew 1969.

    09/14/2004 1:58:00 PM PDT · by OPS4 · 16 replies · 462+ views
    americanrhetoric.com ^ | delivered 13 Nov. 1969 | Spiro Agnew
    The purpose of my remarks tonight is to focus your attention on this little group of men who not only enjoy a right of instant rebuttal to every Presidential address, but, more importantly, wield a free hand in selecting, presenting, and interpreting the great issues in our nation. First, let’s define that power. They can make or break by their coverage and commentary a moratorium on the war. They can elevate men from obscurity to national prominence within a week. They can reward some politicians with national exposure and ignore others.