ABC is the network that BROKE the story of the Torture Conspiracy for gawds sake. But somehow, in spite of the efforts of non-Villagers….the subject never came up.
Scandalous, scandalous in two senses of the word. I the sense that it is a scandal that our nation’s discourse is set by these self-interested, self important circus clowns….and in the sense that they are more interested in scandal that anything substantive. Anything that could actually help our nation, which is increasingly in need of help, thanks in large part to vacuous, idiotic blowhards like these and the other member of our “press” and non-intelligentsia.
Intead as the good folks over at Crooks and Liars put it You’re HURTING America!
Stop it. Now.
Remember what your job is, journalism, not gotchaism.
Remember your responsibility to intelligently question those in power, to inform and educate your viewers. Remember your integrity. Or at least the last place you saw it.
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weapons of mass destruction. Perhaps we should send in the troops to try to bring down their regime.
Personally, I think the most effective means to stop the corporate media — at least television/cable/radio — is to simply stop consuming their product.
Like with any addiction, quitting is difficult. Especially since we Americans are hooked on television and radio before we are born. We can hear the propaganda from inside our mother’s womb.
Turn off the television. Turn off the radio. The less we consume, the less impact they have. Ignore them.
As a substitute, I suggest books from the library, blogs, and independent or foreign newspapers. Right now, my favorite newspaper is The Guardian.
There is plenty of bread and circus available to distract ourselves without partaking in American corporate media.
and that debate last night was mine. Don’t know why it was this moment, but I haven’t been so fucking angry in a very long time.
This is getting to be a habit, but once again, Hunter nailed it today (only this time I check your links buhdy and didn’t see it LOL).
giving “us” the finger. I’ve been disgusted with ABC since they aired their WH propaganda piece The Path to 9/11. Many people were outraged and contacted ABC’s advertisers-so ABC decided to air the propaganda without commercials.
They gave us all the finger then. And they did it again last night. IMHO, Melody Townsel is right on target with her analysis:
I think that if we are going to defeat them, we have to understand them. They aren’t going to give up their power and go gently into humanitarian endeavors. We can’t defeat them by traditional methods of protest. ABC is part of their propaganda machine and they’ll run it at a loss if they must, part of the cost of keeping their power.
I don’t know if trying to change or chastise them will make much difference–it didn’t when they aired the 9/11 Propaganda. (But that didn’t stop me from e-mailing them my opinion of their “journalism”) They don’t care. I think we’ve just got to keep countering the lies, and smears–& maybe keep researching and getting the all the inconvenient truths about St. McCain out in the open.
Imagine that…though she neglects to mention that they also talked about Rev.Wright, Flag Pins, bittergate, and Bill Ayers for the first hour…oh, and there was the question on her Bosnia lie.
did I slip and fail humanity by calling American M$M Lamestream media when in reality only the highest and most respected of Satan’s minions get to even participate in what does into everything transmitted in the English language 24/7.