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Why The Media Won't Do It:
Democracy could work, if the citizens actually knew the facts.
Based on my experience as a trial attorney, I know that, when the
jury is informed of all the evidence, they will make the right
decision. The problem is that our citizenry depends upon mainstream
media to provide the evidence. The military-industrial-
governmental complex know this, and they have taken steps to
interrupt the process.
Here are eight reasons why we will never get the facts from
mainstream media:
1. Individual decision makers. If media actually disclosed the
poisonous and repulsive things our govt. does, most people would
change the channel. This happened with Bill Moyer's television
show. It was just too repulsive for most folks to deal with. The
closest we have to the truth today are "The Daily Show" and "The
Colbert Report' which cloak repulsive truth in humor to make it
palatable.
2. Naturally-occurring societal self-censorship. Groups naturally
filter out truths which makes the group look bad. Examples: the
27,000 Vietnamese civilians our CIA admitted they killed with one
bullet each in the back of the head (after first torturing them);
the over 500,000 Iraqi children we killed through our embargo
(which did nothing to cause the ouster of Saddam); etc. These
repulsive truths are vaporized by an unspoken agreement of citizens
at all levels of society.
3. Mainstream media is primarily owned by a few large organizations
which, in turn, are owned by, or own, segments of the
military-industrial-congressional complex. Example: General
Electric-owned media will not disseminate facts undermining war,
because it sells a lot of products to the war machine.
4. Media relies upon the state for its very existence through
licenses and taxes and dare not fundamentally offend its master.
This was clear through the FCC's recent rules change allowing more
concentration. Mainstream media compliance brought them favorable
rules.
5. Media needs government-induced murder and mayhem for news
content. The ability of media to deliver news vastly exceeds the
ability of God to create news and therefore the media has to be
creative to find content -- witness the creation of the celebrity,
entertainment as news and "reality" shows. Endless wars and related
threats provide badly-needed content.
6. U.S. Intelligence agencies have intentionally compromised
portions of mainstream media. The Church Senate Committee On
Intelligence proved this -- over 200 reporters, columnists and
editors on the payroll of the CIA; CIA-backed book publishers;
government-leaked information in return for adopting government
approved editorial or content bias; etc.
7. Reporters' sloth and low standards, which reflect our broader
society, drugged out of its mind by the unreality of television,
movies and advertising. Sloth causes media to accept government and
corporate press releases on their face value and to not
investigate.
8. Individuals within the Media who think they have ethnic
connections with the state of Israel slant news to favor the U.S.
and State of Israel's shared values of violence and
destabilization. |
