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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:05 pm    Post subject: Fake news = fake freedom Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Not only is this unacceptable, it is also illegal.

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Take action today to help us Start Change:
Send a message to the FCC and ask them to STOP FAKE NEWS

In the end this is very simple.
Our broadcast television media operates on public airwaves.
We have rules about how these airwaves can be used.
We insist that the practice of local news stations airing government funded and produced propaganda without disclosure cease immediately.

Start Change Today: visit www.StopFakeNews.org and tell the FCC to stop the Bush Administration’s unlawful use of public funds for partisan propaganda.

Thank you for your support,

Arkadi, Marc, Tim and the rest of the StartChange team.
www.StartChange.org

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Am I getting this right?
The Bush Junta has been feeding the media with newspackages that are pro Bush propaganda? Financed by state funds? This can hardly be legal.. even in the US?

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Fox "News" infuriates me. With all his "newspapers" and Fox TV around the world, Murdoch is proof that the media is not solely controlled by liberals.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Mohoyoho wrote:
Fox "News" infuriates me. With all his "newspapers" and Fox TV around the world, Murdoch is proof that the media is not solely controlled by liberals.


The days of the liberal press are gone. Sad

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

It's so pathetic, sometimes I think political commentary has no place on an electronic music site, but where else is it? Shocked
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I thnk it is completely kosher to discuss politics here. If artists stopped to care, well.. then the madness would really start. Shocked
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Hmmm, I think you're right there elektro.

I don't know (personally) any artist that is not politically interested and concerned in some way, and we alll know that a lot of good and groundbreaking music has been political commentary both in the lyrics and the moods of the music.

Somehow I'm not the least surprised about the Bush/Fox thing. I seem to remember having read somwhere that this Bush dude has repeatedly proved himself a liar, or something to that effect... it very sad that he remains in office.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

imho, the problem is not that the bush adminstration is providing packaged news items to the press (every group does this, including the dems, and the "liberal artist media")...it's that the press is willing to print/broadcast the stuff without scrutinizing it and without providing commentary, context, or analysis. it comes down to cost, and it's cheaper for the media if someone else does the work and hands it to them. being mad at the bush adminstration for writing the stuff seems to me to be missing the point...it's the news media that you are paying to report what is happening (by watching/reading advertisments and/or subscribing)...hold them accountable for what they report.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 2:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

deknow wrote:
...hold them accountable for what they report.


Oh, they're accountable alright, only not to the public, but to their shareholders and plutocratic patrons. You dont think NBC isn't first and foremost accountable to GE, for instance? All they want from the public is our [manufactured] consent.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Hey Cyx where have you been Question welcome back Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

seraph wrote:
Hey Cyx where have you been Question welcome back Very Happy


Yeah, sorry about that. Been contending with the evermore disruptive effects of life's plate techtonics.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Cyxeris wrote:
"Yeah right, who's the only one here who knows secret illegal ninja moves from the government?"
-Napoleon Dynamite

what happened to the Sopranos Question

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I'm reminded of a piece of dialogue from the movie The Russia House (1990):

CIA Interrogator: Have you ever met any jazz musicians you would describe, or who would describe themselves, as anarchists?
Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery): Hmmm... ah, there was a trombone player, Wilfred Baker.
[the interrogator starts writing]
Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair: He's the only jazz musician I can think of who is completely devoid of anarchist tendencies.


I find that a rather similar rule tends to apply to us electromusicians.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

cyx,
i don't know how nbc can manufacture my (or your) consent. of course they are responisible to the shareholders of ge, but the beauty of capitalism is we don't have to guess at the motives of those shareholders....it's to make money. if we don't watch nbc, if we write letters to their sponsers, if we make a public outcry then nbc is of little value to the shareholders of ge, and they will either sell to someone who wants to reform them, or they will reform nbc themselves based on what the public will watch.

i've been loving watching jon stewart cover the karl rove disgrace. no real news channel (or radio) that i have found has done as thourough a job to show (with real facts, real clips, and real analysis) the idiocy, lies, and sidestepping the bush administration is trying to pull off here.

stewart was successful in getting crossfire axed by being brutaly honest about how low quality the show was....i expect that he will continue to have an impact in the news world because this brutal honesty (even in a comedy show) is proving more popular than the standard news format...it's a good sign.

...do people outside the us get to watch the daily show?


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

deknow wrote:
i don't know how nbc can manufacture my (or your) consent. of course they are responisible to the shareholders of ge, but the beauty of capitalism is we don't have to guess at the motives of those shareholders....it's to make money. if we don't watch nbc, if we write letters to their sponsers, if we make a public outcry then nbc is of little value to the shareholders of ge, and they will either sell to someone who wants to reform them, or they will reform nbc themselves based on what the public will watch.


Alot of "ifs" in there which, of course, points out the practical reality that the general public (which is, at least in principle, the final say in a society masquerading as a democracy) tends to act, or not act, according to their best understanding of what is going on, and unfortunately, NBC has a tendency to be a trusted news source amongst the masses. It simply is not questioned. Those who know better are, you know, conspiracy nuts, militia sympathizers, a whole slew of epithets meant to discredit the opposition.

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