The trend lines of media ownership are steep and ominous in the United States. When "The Media Monopoly" first appeared on bookshelves in 1983, author Ben Bagdikian explains, "50 corporations dominated most of every mass medium." With each new edition, that number kept dropping -- to 29 media firms in 1987, 23 in 1990, 14 in 1992, and 10 in 1997.
Published this spring, the sixth edition of "The Media Monopoly" documents that just a half-dozen corporations are now supplying most of the nation's media fare. And Bagdikian, a longtime journalist, continues to sound the alarm. "It is the overwhelming collective power of these firms, with their corporate interlocks and unified cultural and political values, that raises troubling questions about the individual's role in the American democracy."
Yep...MUD
BTW...God Save the Power of the Internet!!
Richmond Times-Dispatch
15 June 1999 Correspondent of the Day, Mudboy Slim
"Accord Made Possible By Capitulation--Clinton's"
Editor, Times-Dispatch:
People who have tuned in to any of the networks over the past few days have no doubt been treated to any number of stories celebrating Bill Clinton's great military victory over Yugoslavia, as well as his supposed political victory over those who have questioned the advisability of his ruthless attacks on a sovereign nation that has never threatened our national interests. Does the Leftist Media even believe their own spin?!! Are they as corrupt as Clinton, or just plain IGNORANT?!!
After two months of indiscriminately slaughtering innocent Kosovar Albanians and Serbs alike, destroying the infrastructure of a sovereign nation, and expending a substantial portion of our already-depleted weapons cache, the G-8 deal Slobodon Milosevic apparently has accepted is almost exactly the same as the one we could have had prior to Clinton's commencement of the bloodshed.
By all accounts, the Rambouillet Accords the administration tried to force down the throats of the Yugoslavian leadership were acceptable to Slobo with two major exceptions. First, the occupying force Clinton wanted to install in Kosovo had to be NATO-led, while Slobo insisted that the peacekeepers be UN-led. The difference is critical, as a UN-led force would be monitored by the U.N. Security Council, on which both Russia and China have veto authority; while a NATO-led force would answer directly to Slick Willie.
The second major disagreement related to the future of Kosovo as a province of Yugoslavia, where the U.S./Kosovo Liberation Army contingent demanded a plebiscite in three years, which would allow the ethnic Albanians to secede and form their own Islamic state--while Milosevic insisted that Kosovo remain part of greater Yugoslavia.
The ugly truth the Clinton cheerleaders in the media refuse to publicize is that the G-8 agreement includes a UN-led peace-keeping force, and no provision for Kosovar Albanian independence. Make no mistake about it, the capitulation required to reach an agreement in the Clinton/Milosevic negotiations was much more Clinton's than it was Slobo's--and the two-month massacre was a huge waste of money, weaponry, lives, and American prestige!
Quite Sincerely...MUD
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Posted by: Mudboy Slim (Clinton_is@War.Criminal) 1 06/15/1999 06:46:57 PDT
SlixMYbitch...MUD