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The Function of the Media...

...is not to alert us to the clear and present danger presednted by the Bush junta.

The function of the media is to distract us with trivia and bury the really important stuff like the loss of human rights in the US; the illegal incarceration of POWs in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which flies in the face of the spirit (if not the letter) of every treaty on POWs ever signed; the fact that the US is now technically bankrupt; the lies we were told to get support for the illegal war in Iraq; and corporate fraud and cronyism. There's more, but you know the score.

The reason the media aren't functioning as they are supposed to, as they were set up to, is that the owners are as up to their necks in all this shit just as much as Bush, Romsfeld and the rest of the crew. It's as much in their interests to keep a lid on things as it is the politicians.

What we need right now is a decent revolution.

BTW, I like your stuff but, man, you're hard to track! Too many blogs, dude! Can you not consolidate some of them?

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posted by DamonLeigh on June 23, 2003 at 7:38 AM | link to this | reply

re: Terrorist neglect by the Bush administration is ignored

Well said and all true.  However, I place much blame and responsibility on the American people.  In general, both politicians (e.g. Presidents) and the media reflect the peoples' mentality and desires.  Amazingly, terrorism, and the war on it, ranks rather low among issues Americans are concerned about.  The top concern, the economy, is tied in with terrorism; an eventual attack in the United States would seriously compromise our already weak economy. The standard cry to "get back to normal" is fine -- up to a certain point.  But we have to realize September 11th did indeed violently push us into a new era.  Those who hate us are willing and able to act upon that hatred on our own soil, on a grand scale.  Part of our responsibility is to heavily scrutinize our government's war on terrorism. 

posted by Riker on June 23, 2003 at 2:24 AM | link to this | reply