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mosc
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:05 pm Post subject:
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Not only is this unacceptable, it is also illegal.
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 _________________ --Howard
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elektro80
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Joined: Mar 25, 2003 Posts: 21959 Location: Norway
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:39 pm Post subject:
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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? _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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Mohoyoho
Joined: Dec 03, 2003 Posts: 1632 Location: Tennessee
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7/4
Joined: Jan 19, 2004 Posts: 161 Location: ...next stop Mars!
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:46 pm Post subject:
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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. Last edited by 7/4 on Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:49 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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mosc
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:22 pm Post subject:
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It's so pathetic, sometimes I think political commentary has no place on an electronic music site, but where else is it? _________________ --Howard
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elektro80
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject:
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I thnk it is completely kosher to discuss politics here. If artists stopped to care, well.. then the madness would really start. _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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DrJustice
Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Posts: 2114 Location: Morokulien
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:15 pm Post subject:
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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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deknow
Joined: Sep 15, 2004 Posts: 1307 Location: Leominster, MA (USA)
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject:
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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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Cyxeris
Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 2:49 am Post subject:
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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. _________________ ∆ Cyx ∆
"Yeah right, who's the only one here who knows secret illegal ninja moves from the government?"
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seraph
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:15 am Post subject:
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Hey Cyx where have you been welcome back _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
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Cyxeris
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:21 am Post subject:
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seraph wrote: | Hey Cyx where have you been welcome back |
Yeah, sorry about that. Been contending with the evermore disruptive effects of life's plate techtonics. _________________ ∆ Cyx ∆
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seraph
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:21 am Post subject:
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Cyxeris wrote: | "Yeah right, who's the only one here who knows secret illegal ninja moves from the government?"
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what happened to the Sopranos _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
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Qualium
Joined: Oct 19, 2004 Posts: 33 Location: Australia
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:38 am Post subject:
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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.
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deknow
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject:
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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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Cyxeris
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:44 am Post subject:
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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.
"As short a time ago as February, the Ministry of Plenty had issued a promise (a 'categorical pledge' were the official words) that there would be no reduction of the chocolate ration during 1984. Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week. All that was needed was to substitute for the original promise a warning that it would probably be necessary to reduce the ration at some time in April." _________________ ∆ Cyx ∆
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