Moore responded point by point and demanded a retraction and an apology from Dr Gupta. Several days later Moore received a thinly worded apology admitting only to some inadvertent inaccuracies. Gupta has disappeared from the CNN’s line up as well as Michael Moore. Moore had made it clear to Blitzer that he was always willing to come on the show and talk about the issues of the day and hoped it wouldn’t be another four years as it was since his last appearance before he was asked to appear again.
Now why wouldn’t they want Michael Moore as a guest? He’s very colorful and entertaining, he can be very humorous and stay on message. Unlike Noam Chomsky he can answer a question in less than 30 seconds but best selling authors like Chomsky and Howard Zinn are unheard of on the mainstream media. While conservative pundits and authors make the network rounds. Tucker Carlson is given a platform while Phil Donahue is silenced by the media’s refracted reality attempting to guide public opinion and influence the political mindset. The subtle and repetitive message, the twisting of the most mundane to stay on the theme.
While radio was still in its infancy at the very first meeting of the FCC had ruled that the airwaves are free, that they are the property of the American people. That licensees are granted a privilege and are in debt to the American people for that privilege. The license allows private individuals to earn a profit from the people’s airwaves but demands that they use those airwaves in the best interest of the public. Those who are found not to be doing so shall be stripped of their license.
Our politicians talk much about change, but we can’t change anything until we take back our airwaves. To require the separation between fact and opinion to be as strong and inviolate as the separation between church and state and the means to contest opinion broadcasted as fact. Not to make the airwaves more liberal or less conservative but free because with out free airwaves a free country becomes an illusion. An illusion made possible by a refracted reality.
Now why wouldn’t they want Michael Moore as a guest? He’s very colorful and entertaining, he can be very humorous and stay on message. Unlike Noam Chomsky he can answer a question in less than 30 seconds but best selling authors like Chomsky and Howard Zinn are unheard of on the mainstream media. While conservative pundits and authors make the network rounds. Tucker Carlson is given a platform while Phil Donahue is silenced by the media’s refracted reality attempting to guide public opinion and influence the political mindset. The subtle and repetitive message, the twisting of the most mundane to stay on the theme.
While radio was still in its infancy at the very first meeting of the FCC had ruled that the airwaves are free, that they are the property of the American people. That licensees are granted a privilege and are in debt to the American people for that privilege. The license allows private individuals to earn a profit from the people’s airwaves but demands that they use those airwaves in the best interest of the public. Those who are found not to be doing so shall be stripped of their license.
Our politicians talk much about change, but we can’t change anything until we take back our airwaves. To require the separation between fact and opinion to be as strong and inviolate as the separation between church and state and the means to contest opinion broadcasted as fact. Not to make the airwaves more liberal or less conservative but free because with out free airwaves a free country becomes an illusion. An illusion made possible by a refracted reality.
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