You're not stupid, they just talk to you this way !
"At least 22 American news organizations had employed American journalists who were also working for the CIA, and nearly a dozen American publishing houses printed some of the more than 1,000 books that had been produced or subsidized by the CIA. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Carl Bernstein's 1970s Rolling Stone article on the CIA's stranglehold on the US media is a classic. Things has gotten far worst since then : THE CIA AND THE MEDIA BY CARL BERNSTEIN http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
For Enabling Big Media to Consolidate Even More Under the Ownership of Multi-Billion Dollar Corporations Beholden to the Republicans (and Some Democrats) for Tax Breaks, Media Cross-Ownership Waivers, Anti-Trust Breaks and More, the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week Award Goes to Kevin Martin, Head of the FCC and a Bushevik Lawyer Who Helped With the Theft of the Election in 2000. MEDIAPUTZ.COM
Beyond the concern of big media not to offend the Republicans upon who they are dependent for deregulation, tax relief, and anti-trust exemptions, they are deeply involved in the merger of news and entertainment, which means actual news can get in the way of the entertainment, dramatic storyline. Nothing more accurately describes the charade, lies, deception, dishonesty, false humility, and manufactured image than the word "Fraud."
Corporate Marketing for a Corporate Campaign / Political theater has devolved to theater without politics. Corporate "journalists" behave like sports "color" commentators, minus real stats and facts. We North Americans are the best entertained and the least informed people on this planet. But more than a quarter of U.S. young adults can't find the Pacific Ocean on a map. Media determine our pubic consciousness of false reality in which we are invited to live large parts of our lives. Proof of concept…
Gary Webb's Enduring Legacy / Webb was correct in his reporting about the Nicaraguan contras' role in smuggling cocaine into the United States in the 1980s. The CIA inspector general's 1998 findings, confirmed much of what Webb had alleged -- and more. The CIA inspector general found that the CIA and the Reagan administration had helped cover up the evidence. By Robert Parry December 11, 2007 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/121007.html
Thanks Mindfuck Inc. for failing us, again & again, in bringing us the facts ! We sure couldn’t control the rabble without your diligence ;)
Indeed…
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself" - Joseph PulitzerMeanwhile…
"We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle


