"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. "I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. "The business of the Journalist is to destroy truth; To lie outright; To pervert; To vilify; ..... We are intellectual prostitutes" - John Swinton, the former chief of staff of the New York Times 1880
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." - William Colby, former CIA director
"We know in the not too distant future, a half dozen corporations are going to control the media.
We took this step (merger) to ensure we were one of them"--Time Warner spokesperson.
War on Drugs? War on Poverty? War on Terror? It's always war on somebody with these people - marginalization and exclusion of a targeted group, aggression, deceit, injustice. Create that differential through disturbance, because when there's a steady state there is no movement, fluctuation provides great opportunity for profit and control. If you have prescient knowledge of the variables, you can create the crisis, induce reaction, offer resolution, and clean up profit-wise on the differential inherent in the controlled dynamic. Slap on a few no-bid contracts for your buddies, adjust a few widgets here, shove these assets over there, kill those ones there, no wait, sorry, I meant kill those ones AND those ones over there. Set up the false left-right struggle and watch the boneheads duke it out - all the while we control both sides, so guess who always has to win. Look in the mirror everybody - what a putz!
How far should we go? Maybe we could explore the malfeasance inherent within the entire Federal Reserve System, a misnomer of course - they are not Federal, and they don't have any reserves. What about the IRS, absolutely ruining peoples lives for how many decades now without the legal authority to actually do anything. The CIA? Tell me how its ok to use tax dollars to plan military takeovers of democratically elected governments, or carry out assassinations, import drugs, and contravene any pretense of international law. Oh, and as a complete non sequitur - I could never figure out why the big reconstruction contracts for Iraq were not handed to the Iraqis themselves, give them a wage, let them build their country back up while building up their bank accounts, the bootstrap thing, the American way - You know, all that horse-sh*t! Enough examples, there are literally hundreds of things we could talk about at great length - and it just makes you sick, assuming you have a pulse.
I've stopped paying attention whatsoever to mainstream media, like many others I utilize alternative news sources that provide me with more honest accounts of reality than the TV's lead story and the never ending web of lies. I've lost so much anger and frustration with my life through this awakening, and it's all because I've figured out how and why I've been manipulated for so long. I used to sit there and swear at the TV, feeling as if my intelligence was being insulted, but not understanding why. About 20 years ago I started putting on the mute button during all the commercials, so then I would just swear at the news. I used to play video games, now I don't - perhaps such activities provide a release mechanism for all that pent up frustration. I stopped wondering why every single network would carry the same stories, the same way - stopped wondering why that cheese-dick kid in Asia was wearing the same stupid shorts half way down his ass with a ball-cap turned sideways, or backwards on purpose, as all those other cheese-dick kids in the States, Italy, you name it. I had to wonder what force could make the same styles and trends popular everywhere, at the same time. Don't you ever wonder about such things? like when a movie or book comes out dealing with the wild west, or aliens, or whatever - a bunch of others come out at the same time, and not just copycats mimicking to cash in on a popular idea, I mean they all get released concurrently, it's as if the popular culture is dictated to and operating via mandate, and indeed it is. Network television is thus relegated to the same level of truth and integrity as any late night infomercial we are beleaguered with when yon Morpheus denies us respite from the daily moil.
After somebody lies to me 10,000 times over my entire life, I'm a bit reticent to believe their stories "absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event" like hearing some actual truth for once. They must be telling a lie - after all, "I saw it on TV".
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers" - Thomas Jefferson
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