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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
"Meet the new boss - same as the old boss"
but this is troubling....
This passage raises some very interesting questions. Given the parallels in the warnings from PBS and CNN, it appears that somehow, these producers are basically censoring the news. On what authority are they doing this? Is corporate management of both organizations requiring it, or is the government forcing these organizations to censor?
Among the many congressional investigations or public inquiries I would like to see, is one of the media. I would like to see the top officials and journalists subpoenaed and put on the record about their actions and motives after 9/11 and during the run up to war in particular.
A truth commission.
PBS is particularly tragic since it shows the success the Bush admin had at warping public media to their will. Horton had a piece not so long ago about PBS delaying the airing of a documentary until January 20th. Literally the day Bush leaves office.
There's a crucial difference between the perpetrators of human rights abuse within the United States and those within the other countries listed: the latter group may very well face justice, even retribution, for their crimes some day; those within the USA will not. That alone puts us in a category all our own.
Hillary gets SOS, I hear.
David Shuster (subbing for KO) did a bit last night about Obama's [paraphrasing]neocon, pro-War, appointments so far, and how the Admin. is shaping up.
I'm fairly certain the majority of Corp. Media isn't connecting those dots on-air.
All asking for Obama to properly indict and prosecute the wrong-doers of the Bush Jr. administration have it wrong. Mr Obama will not risk constitutional process, which may eventually judge the misdeeds quite legal and alright. He will use the powers handed to him on a gold platter by Bush Jr. and cronies against them: Cheney, Bush, Gonzales et al. will be snatched off the streets, handcuffed, sacked, taken to secret cellars all aoround the torturing world, detained indefintely and not-tortured [in correspondence with Bush's ruling that 'we don't torture'].
The new administration will censor Faux News and some other right-wing loudspeakers, abduct and detain Hannity, O'Reilly and their Friends in Guantanamo without contact or any kind of due. Newspapers, magazines, TV shows or bloggers reporting on this will be called 'un-patriotic traitors', their personnell intimidated or just shut off access.
All this in the name of GOD's WORD, Freedom, Democracy and Peace.
I can now see why people hope for an afterlife with a penal GOD ...
I'm both entirely unsurprised and basically undisturbed by the fact that Obama's most significant appointments thus far are composed largely of standard Washington establishment figures and pro-Iraq-War hawks, and are devoid of people "on the Left". -- GG
Unsurprised, of course. Anyone who has been paying attention to the rise of Obama has no reason to be surprised at his deliberate and careful placing of establishment -- and in a sense, quite reactionary, though maybe not so much as the Busheviks -- figures throughout his transition and administration-to-be.
But "undisturbed?" Uh...
You should be disturbed; everyone should be. Instead, there's a sort of post-victory lassitude, as if everything is all right now, redemption is nigh. No. I think not.
Go visit with Chris Floyd for a while.
http://www.chris-floyd.com/
Plus ça change," indeed.
I think being highly disturbed, even somewhat agitated, is called for.
Boy, am I getting depressed. I think I'll go garden too, GC.
Regarding the snubbing. I recommend you take a look at Michael Shaw's (BAGnewsNotes) deconstruction of the clip shown on American television in the context of a much larger bit of film. It is Shaw's contention that Bush was neither engaging nor receiving a snub. It appears that Bush was looking for his marks on the floor - as illustrated in the same behavior exhibited by others, doing the same thing. It was a carefully staged photo op.
Shaw, btw, is as meticulous in his examination of visual media as Glenn is on his examination of media in general.
Link at sig.
Shaw catches Bush, at the end of the longer clip, pitching one of his trademark hissy fit-sulks.
*Self Restraint.
A tone of pride or petulance repressed, a selfish inclination firmly fought, a shadow of annoyance set at nought,
A murmur of disquietude,
suppressed,
A peace in importunity possessed,
A reconcilement generously sought,
A purpose set aside-a banished thought,
A word of self-explaining unexpressed, trifles they seem these petty soul restraints. Yet he who proves them must needs possess,
A constancy and courage grand and bold. They are the trifles that have made the saints. Give me to practice them in humbleness.
And noble power than___doth no man hold. anonymous.
Thanks, GC. We need many of those, along with a full accounting for wrong.
I remember reading a tiny news article in my local paper a couple years ago. A man in New York was being sent to prison. His crime? He hooked up a satelite dish to receive a middle eastern news channel, that is illegal to receive in the United States. The Bush admin. has banned the reception of this news channel, because of its "pro-terrorists" agenda. It wasn't Al-jazeera, but I can't recall the name of it. It made me wonder a couple of things. One, why is it illegal to receive a news channel? Two, why isn't this in a bigger story and more prominently placed in the paper. Aren't Americans supposed to have freedom of speech? Freedom to read or hear what ever we want? Putting a man in prison for hooking up a satelite dish? Seems our "free press" should be championing for the right of Americans, to choose to hear what ever "press" they desire. Well that's what would happen, if we actually had a "free press" in this country.
Crapola!
link at sig
If anyone's looking for me, I'll be out in the garden with Happy2Bhere and GoodCelery! Many more articles like this, Glenn, and I'll have the most weed free garden ever.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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