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To: Brian Mosely; All

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 Don’t 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. It’s unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what’s happening in the world. In fact, it’s 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


102 posted on 05/17/2005 4:12:16 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The far Left thinks the press is right-wing because Dan Rather doesn't come on and say, "Today, America's imperialist Army, under the direction of the fascist George Bush, launched an unprovoked, racist, genocidal attack on the poor people of Iraq." The Left considers anything more subtle than that to be "right-wing."


122 posted on 05/17/2005 4:24:12 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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