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Tom Hayden, Prometheus Books: 'This work is a survey of media patterns in conflict and crisis situations. But it is clear from Armoudian s account that the 'mainstream media,' whether state or corporate controlled, have largely acted as an instrument for shielding government, corporate, or military interests. There are exceptions - for example, in the case of special investigative reporters, or for media that find niche markets with a countercultural bias - but in general, the 'mainstream media' reflect the status quo.'

http://www.truth-out.org/kill-messenger-chronicles-medias-role-conflicts-rwanda-mexico/1320858160

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Occupy the press

In These Times
by Susan J. Douglas

11/10/11

Despite the media s appalling coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement, is a more sustained and sustainable assault on the injustices of corporate capitalism gaining a foothold? With the emergence, and spread, of the Occupy movement, the first scandal was the mainstream media s ignoring the story (until the NYPD got violent). Many noted, rightly, that if the demonstration had been organized by the Tea Party, the press would have been all over it from the start...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/12259/occupy_the_press


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKoLNb1Uwpk

Real democracy a blue print!

Max Keiser and Mike Gravel on Occupy Wall Street.

How to work to empower the people and work around the government!


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Whitewashing Black History Month

By Gary Younge

Arizona s suppression of Mexican American studies fits a pattern of making history serve an exclusionary nationalist mythology.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30411.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mexico
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Arizona
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=+nationalis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=military+interests
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=capitalis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tea+Party
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+Gravel
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tom+Hayden
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