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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:00 AM

What can and cannot be spoken on television

Americans are subjected to a narrow and highly controlled range of opinion regarding Iraq and the U.S. occupation.

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  • Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:51 AM

    Rose show

    I just watched it the whole way through, 16:38.

    I didn't think Rose was very adversarial -- maybe for him, he was. But compared to what goes on on CNN, MSNBC, (no need to mention Fox), he was civil in allowing the guests for the most part to complete their points.

    What a tragedy.

    On a related note, Duke U Press has just published a new book by the political theorist William E. Connolly entitled Capitalism and Christianity, American Style. He writes at leangth and in detail about what Glenn calls the right-wing noise machine, but what he calls the capitalist-Christian resonance machine, and sees it at work in more than just the MSM, but becoming institutiionalized in all sorts of our institutions.

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