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• Monday, December 1, 2008 05:53 AM

  The "Free Press" In America Is Pretty Much Gone

  Since big corporations like General Electric, Disney, and Time-Warner, all of which are invested in businesses unrelated to their original function, have been allowed to take control of most mass marketing media outlets, what we have now is a propaganda machine for the globalist corporate oligarchy. Hasn't anyone else noticed how in the recent political campaigns the "mainstream media" moved as if by a hidden conductor to promote and celebrate certain candidates and ignore, sneer at, and mock others? Did not anyone else notice how the media would blow hot on a candidate together for a few weeks, then denigrate him (or her)? Did you notice how Hillary Clinton's campaign was declared hopeless before some of her biggest wins and how the unrelenting drumbeat of negativism became a self-fulfilling prophecy? So much for "objective reporting". We live in a nation where we are not only told what to buy, but which candidates for political office are acceptable and which national policies are "prudent". By no coincidence, the candidates and policies that benefit the corporate culture the most are portrayed as "centerist" and "moderate". Those who have the perspicacity to declare that this culture is ethically, financially, and ecologically bankrupt are marginalized and declared to be fringe elements. So much for the "free press".

  —futhark Read futhark's other letters
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