Posted on 05/17/2005 3:22:34 PM PDT by Brian Mosely
McClellan should have had let them have it with Abu Gharab and the 9/11 mess. Back during 9/11 the press was censoring themselves to avoid inciting the American people to committing violence against Muslims.
I don't know, you guys. The Left seems to think that the Right is running the show. How that can be, I do not know. Check out these quotes and this bizzar website:
http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/mediadeception/RevealingQuotes3.html
We paid $3 billion for these television stations. We will decide what the news is. The news is what we tell you it is.
David Boylan, WTVT station manager, April 16, 1997
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
William Colby, former Director of the CIA
The owners and managers of the press determine which person, which facts, which version of the facts, and which ideas shall reach the public.
Report by the Commission on Freedom of the Press
quoted in Democracy for the Few, by Michael Parenti
and Dont Blame the People, by Robert Cirino
[The corporate mass-media] serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce the basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc.
The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. Its unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with whats happening in the world. In fact, its undesirable if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.
Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. professor of linguistics, prolific author & U.S. foreign policy critic, What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the [U.S.] media.
Noam Chomsky, co-author of Manufacturing Consent
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity much less dissent.
Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions...
Gore Vidal, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister
After reading this exchange, it sounds like some kind of bounty was put out.
It's already taken away, as far as open criticism of Islam is concerned. No reporter wants to end up with a death fatwa on him, or shot and stabbed multiple times on a city street. They snarl at the President's spokesman, because it's safe to do so.
In 1972 Nixon was re-elected in one of the most massive landslide elections in U.S. political history, defeating George McGovern and garnering over 60% of the popular vote. He carried 49 of the 50 states, trailing only in Massachusetts.
Richard Nixon
This poor little "witch" hasn't yet figured that there must be accountability for the actions that lying causes. Possibly the dan rather school of journalism?
And there we have it. They will write what they damn well please without regard to what actually happens, because they already know how it ends.
" Q Are you asking them to write a story about how great the American military is; is that what you're saying here? "
I hate these elite pr*cks....THEY WOULDNT HAVE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IF IT WEREN'T FOR OUR GREAT MILITARY!
Who is the "Elizabeth" who is asking the questions? What publication is she writing for?
He referred to her as Elisabeth (with an S), so it must be that NYT B****, Elisabeth Bumiller.
Her stories drip with anti-Bush/anti-Republican sentiment.
They should have sent Rummy....THAT guy has BALLS
Bumiller: Huh?
Tennessee Congressman Ford (Hope I got his name right...it was early...), on Imus this am, took the line that Newsweek has done good work, is reliable, and so what if they got this wrong. The WH gets a lot of things wrong. So there. Liberals circling the MSM wagons. (That's all they've got...a national propaganda machine.) Ford probably has his eye on Hill's ticket as VP -- she needs the black vote and the south. Even if she loses, he gains recognition and power for an eventual Presidential run.
This is our White House in action? Wimps.
Hey, Elizabeth, Yoda just called.
He wants his face back.
I hate the MSM.
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