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- TJ11240, on 04/26/2008, -2/+151iTunes thumbnail?
- porterj44, on 04/26/2008, -8/+118Thank God or whatever for PBS. None of the other news outlets (except for MSNBC and Keith Obermann) appear to have the balls to call this administration on its' lies and misrepresentations!
- shadus, on 04/26/2008, -8/+112Is this really any shock? This kind of propaganda has been the hallmark of governments seeking to manipulate its citizens for many years. See Germany, Russia, etc... Bush is such a nice little dictator. /sarcasm.
- kevro, on 04/26/2008, -3/+94and in other news, next years funding for PBS gets cut by 60%.
- bsdboy, on 04/26/2008, -3/+89Thank you PBS.
- pseudononymist, on 04/26/2008, -11/+77Ironic that it's the publicly funded (ie government funded) news network that's breaking this story.
- GRANDPAMUNSTER, on 06/11/2009, -1/+58Of course the corporate networks are not going to touch this story, these are the same networks that thought we needed two weeks of Anna Nicole Smith's death coverage.
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -0/+55THIS IS HOW IT IS DONE:
"All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be. But if, as in propaganda for sticking out a war, the aim is to influence a whole people, we must avoid excessive intellectual demands on our public, and too much caution cannot be exerted in this direction."
"The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered. In this way the result is weakened and in the end entirely cancelled out." ~ Adolph Hitler - inactive, on 04/26/2008, -20/+74What makes you think Obama's not one of the military-industrial complex's candidates-of-choice? Or Kerry or Gore? Anyone who gets to that level in politics, anyone whom the media promotes is; there's too much at stake for the powers that be to have it any other way.
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -3/+51"Couldn’t convince the other networks to participate..."
Obviously, that's like asking a criminal to confess to a crime that made him rich.
Last time I watched one of these corporate own News channels was in 2004. Turn it off America! - inactive, on 04/26/2008, -0/+43This crap is a lot bigger than Bush, and a lot older too.
- hawkeye17, on 04/26/2008, -3/+44Goebbels would be proud of this Pentagon program.
- yosserhughes, on 04/26/2008, -2/+40You know what? its depressing; even when the American people have been shown that they were lied to, manipulated and generally led by the nose into the Iraq war, there are STILL people, many on this site, dozens in fact, who want another war, this time with Iran
How the ***** do you get through to these people? Are they really that stupid, I mean, are we doomed forever to be surrounded by idiots? - inactive, on 04/26/2008, -11/+47pbs is the only non-partial news station out there. think about it.
- ScienceDoc, on 04/26/2008, -1/+37PBS only gets a very small amount of money from the government. They are viewer supported.
- baatezu, on 04/26/2008, -3/+35For the sake of argument lets assume a couple of things:
1. Certain individuals in influential positions determined the outcome of the presidential elections.
2. These same people, in cooperation with the media, blur the reality of the millions of people glued to their TVs, in an effort to sway public opinion regarding important issues (reasons to go to war with Iraq, etc)
3. due to an overwhelming suspicion of dirty tricks, Americans investigate and uncover the dirty deeds of these people.
4. Again and again irrefutable facts prove illegal activities by both our political leaders and by the media.
So then what happens? nothing. The people in power will still be in power. They will continue to manipulate the populace, creating even more transparent trickery. It has happened throughout history and it will happen again.
Imagine living in Soviet Russia. The media is completely controlled by the government. Every single newscast is just a reflection of the ruling party's talking points. The entire political and legal systems are corrupt. Stolen elections, lying, manipulation, misdirection, etc. The Russian citizens aren't stupid. they know that its all a sham, but what do they do? nothing. How can they. They are just ordinary people against a ruling military. They can hold demonstrations, protests, etc. but that all still means nothing. those in power are still in power.
Knowing that anyone in a powerful, influential, corrupt position will most likely use all his power/influence/corruption to stay in that position, the only way for true change is through revolution. Which means many, many lives lost and probably the destruction of the society's infrastructure.
Same thing is happening in America (for sake of argument). Do you really think that the American people in this day and age would rise up physically against our government? No way would that ever happen. The administration tested the waters. A little lie here, a little scandal there, and wait. nothing happens. so they step it up. more lying, more corruption, more manipulation. Still no blow-back. So why stop? If Bush can do anything (including lying about information that starts a war that kills hundreds of thousands of people) and not have to fear any reprisals (even Pelosi said impeachment was completely off the table). Then why stop?
The corruption will continue, the lies will continue, the manipulation will continue. and it wont matter if 99% of the people mistrust those in charge. What are they going to do? vote them out? they are the ones counting the votes......
The ONLY solution I have come to is that people have to look at the local level. the establishment cartel can not reach its tentacles into every local election. And the local political positions are the sleeping elephant in this equation. Already we are seeing stories of local dissent. states refusing to accept the Real ID, California allowing prescription marijuana, etc. I do not see federal shock troops marching into smalltown USA and forcing federal laws on the local population. there simply aren't enough shock troops.
SO - my message to anyone reading this, is find the issues that you truly care about, and find a local politician that is willing to stand up to the federal government on those issues. If you cant find one, then run for a position yourself. City council positions are a lot easier to get than you think. - RetlawST, on 04/26/2008, -10/+41Uh, because it seems like he's the target of every pundit, ass-wipe, and general ***** in the media. Obama came out of general obscurity less than four years ago, and has lived a very public life since then. His roots are in social service, he wasn't a professional politician, he wasn't a preacher, he wasn't some douche whose goal was to push his beliefs on others. He worked for poor communities to help improve neighborhoods by increasing jobs and providing affordable housing. Does that sound like military-industrial complex to you?
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -2/+27Neo ***** Cum Guzzler.
- johnpaul191, on 04/26/2008, -0/+24He tried to cut it all at one point. Seriously.
- RetlawST, on 04/26/2008, -6/+30What the hell does that even mean? What would you prefer they do? Report about how awesome the people of Iraq love us? Report about how the White House is made of rainbows and lollipops? The truth is not left or right, but I guess some people don't understand that. If you were to physically see Bush skull ***** a sick, dying, Darfurian, orphan on the national mall, would you criticize your eyes for being liberal hippies and gouge them out?
- RetlawST, on 04/26/2008, -2/+26I dugg you up, but it's not ironic. It would be irony if reporting the truth wasn't the purpose of a news broadcast. Poetic justice, perhaps, that the one organization keeping to its journalistic routes is the one that happens to be funded by the government the other reporters are folding to.
- DalamarArgent, on 04/26/2008, -0/+23Going for the hat-trick BannedTwice?
- OriginalReplica, on 04/26/2008, -3/+26You say you are losing patience with people in America... What exactly do you think we should be doing? I've signed Robert Wexler's petition to impeach Cheney, I've protested from inside "first amendment zones", I voted for Ron Paul.
If I or anyone else really tried to organize a coup to overthrow our current plutocracy, do you think anything would happen other than a trip to Gitmo for me and my new friends, and an Evening News story about a "SWAT team arresting an anarchist terrorist cell." - crichton101, on 04/26/2008, -3/+25Well Bush did say a dictatorship would be easier as long as he was the dictator. I guess this was just his way of making it happen.
- shadus, on 04/26/2008, -6/+26Except for fox who has lost touch with reality completely most of the broadcasters will be forced to say *something* eventually one way or the other.
- chevyorange, on 04/26/2008, -1/+21So, since you're "right wing" brainwashed, anything you don't agree with or like gets slapped with "liberal" or "left wing". Right.
- graelignites, on 04/26/2008, -4/+23I don't personally know anyone who thinks that our American media is unbiased and truthful. I think it is a large misconception that many foreign countries have that we, as Americans, don't know what is going on. It's easy to see when elections are rigged or stolen. As for the bias and corruption of the media, hell, we study it in my college courses. The problem with America isn't know theres a problem, its knowing what to do about it. We can hope that this election goes fairly. If it does not, I think (and hope) that we have gotten tired of and wise to what has happened in the past elections, and actually do something about it if it happens again.
- Enjoikr3w, on 04/26/2008, -1/+20Or free advertisement that adblock cant block?
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -7/+25You don't come out of obscurity to win presidential primaries four years later without the approval of the media.
- theseaman, on 04/26/2008, -2/+18Are you kidding me? PBS and NPR are some of the most reliable, unbiased, and diverse news sources in our country. They only have a responsibility to the American public, and almost none to corporate "interests." They get funding no matter what. If you have watched PDA news or listened to NPR, you would agree.
- UnstableMind, on 04/26/2008, -2/+18Well, Obama's wife is a member of the CFR...
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -3/+18private media is a free market - the truth can be bought and sold.
- TexMurphy, on 04/26/2008, -7/+22thank you pbs.
- Lazydriver, on 04/26/2008, -4/+19Media wouldn't give a ***** about Obama if it weren't for grassroots support, and for the most part, the media still support Billary McCain
- kingcam, on 04/26/2008, -2/+16This isn't even the worst of it, if you really want to know how ***** up American Media is go read Manufacturing Consent, I cant recommend it enough; one of Noam Chomsky's better books.
- truthhurts28, on 04/26/2008, -6/+20wasnt pbs the station that you always ended up watching when you were young and could never figure out why? Reading Rainbow??
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -3/+17bushtards are not happy about this story breaking!
this administration is full of lies - undy242, on 04/26/2008, -0/+14A bit of propaganda irony, perhaps?
- sparkleyflowers, on 04/26/2008, -2/+16Anyone who is paying attention already knew this, but having confirmation is nice.
It's a sad, sad thing that we live in a country where we must fear our government rather than the other way around. - chevyorange, on 04/26/2008, -0/+13Both of these comments stink yet I dugg down BannedTwice and dugg up HencheMann. Mostly because I'm sick of anything that is anti-war, pro-peace, pro-smarts, anti-Bush is at once called Liberal, which leads to "libtard" etc.
If only they realized that it is just American to want to do things RIGHT. All good people American, Libtard, Neo *****, really at the end of the day want to know the truth and tell the truth. Anyone that name calls anyone trying to get to the bottom of the truth and to stop a war that is costing us in every imaginable way and not doing one thing to make us stronger or safer, is painfully obviously the last 16% that can still support George W. Bush. - SpudgeBoy, on 04/26/2008, -0/+13That Bush and his fascist Neo-Cons should be put on trial for war crimes. The problem is tha the MSM push for the war, so they won't say it's bad.
- DalamarArgent, on 04/26/2008, -1/+14--- BREAKING NEWS - ANNA NICOLE SMITH IS STILL DEAD. More coverage later, only on the most trusted name in news - CNN ---
- SabrinaHeaven, on 04/26/2008, -3/+15Actually Glen Beck tries to help, and inform, but unfortunately he's a raging retard.
- scm21st, on 04/26/2008, -0/+12What was I watching there? They weren't interrupting each other! Strange.
- fuzzyfuzz, on 04/26/2008, -0/+12Care to explain how anyone here is a sheep? Any evidence or anything?
- dralezero, on 04/26/2008, -1/+13Yes it sounds like the mafia "govt" picked him up out of his boring life and gave him cookies if he would be a good boy and listen to the elites evil manipulation. Come join our group Obama and we will make you famous and powerful.
- truthmatters, on 04/26/2008, -2/+13I really wish I had your faith in the general publics ability to not sit back and be spoon fed MSM propaganda. It just doesn't make any sense to me after watching the MSM undermine Dennis Kucinich's presidential campaign. Most Americans are too willing to believe whatever they see in the MSM, without realizing the corporate agenda behind the propaganda. We as Americans, were given the one candidate that voted against the Iraq war and it's continued funding, and the Patriot Act, which is a clear violation of our civil liberties, yet we allowed MSM to exclude Kucinich from "their" presidential debates. Kucinich had the foresight and courage to seek the impeachment of Cheney. Kucinich refused corporate donations, so he could be a candidate truly of the people. Yet the public bought into the corporate smear campaign against the one candidate who was the greatest defender of our Constitution! I know people from other countries who were in shock over the lack of support given to Kucinich. The American public has become apathetic in pursuing the truth, and dependent on the MSM for answers. Thank god for the Internet and PBS!
- CrazedLeper, on 04/26/2008, -1/+12No shock--to a thinking person. These people have devoted their lives to the deaths of others. Why would they not lie about it, too? "The Pentagon was "unable to supply a guest on short notice". Another lie.
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