World-News

Mark Karlin, Truthout: 'Watching 'Orwell Rolls in His Grave,' it becomes increasingly clear that we can t see the forest through the trees, because with the consolidation of for-profit corporate media, the forest of information is pretty much owned by just a few companies. And those companies not only frequently create 'facts' to enhance profits, but also create the frame through which public policy is debated to meet their business goals.'

http://www.truth-out.org/can-corporate-media-turn-lies-truth/1311705270

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When You Play the Plutocrats? Game, They Win
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/11-4

Mitt Romney, Presidential Candidate, Says Corporations 'Are People, My Friend'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/11-9

Public Citizen: Today, Organizations Band Together Online to Protest Citizens United Ruling, Corporate Influence in Elections.
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/08/11-8

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The media is the enemy

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

08/17/11

The media is a reliable instrument of government just as surely as if it were an official agency, like the Voice of America: it is owned by corporate entities entirely dependent on the good graces of government officials, and whose natural inclinations are to cozy up to Power rather than challenge it. That s why the new internet-based media is so disturbing to these mandarins, whose opinions are no longer automatically elevated to holy writ...

http://bit.ly/oTzl78


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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