Showing posts with label Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Media. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Programming

The Chicago Tribune has a good article about Kucinich. I was struck by something as I read in comment after comment from people who think Kucinich is right on and the kind of man they want in the White House yet in the same breath they say he can't win.



How complete is the influence of the corporate media. It has convinced people that the candidate they want, the candidate they yearn for, can't win.

This is just incredible. This candidate expresses everything people say they want to happen, from the withdrawal from Iraq to health care to the environment to help for the middle class... on and on. And yet thousands of people are convinced he can't win simply because the media tells them so. As Marc Maron says, Wake up sheeple. The first step to reclaiming your nation is to take that bold move and vote for the candidate who truly represents you—regardless of what the media is telling you. They have a vested interest in keeping him out of power. He is not corporate America's friend. He is yours.

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

No Voice

Gore Vidal on US media and society

We're not the United States of Amnesia — we're the United States of Alzheimer's

Gore Vidal discusses taboo subjects in the media and society and says: “the people have no voice because they have no information.”

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Friday, May 4, 2007

A Natural State of Psychopathy

Interesting article.

It isn't just a question of ignorance, but a question of the long-term thoroughness of the propagandizing that began in the early days of the last century. It was proposed that this propaganda is so complete that not only are most people in the US ignorant of what is taking place on the US political scene, and in the world as a direct result of US policy, they are ignorant of the fact that they are ignorant. They have been inculcated with the view that their view is the only "right" one" and, consequently, they really "don't know any better". In short: "What do you do if you don't know that you don't know something?"

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