Corrupted Dishonest MSM Our Biggest Problem.

[TheMastersNemesis]

The lame stream media is our biggest problem in this election. They are showing they will go far out of their way to coddle GOPPERS and attack Democrats. And they will suppress or distort the Democratic message and candidates. The lack of fact checking of the GOP debates signals a dangerous trend.

[Fred Sanders]

1. Whole heartedly agree...it is getting so obvious it is painful to observe how RW the media have

become, beyond anything imaginable even a few months ago.

The quiet and unheralded policy triumphs of Obama have driven the tea folk insane, because it seems that the paradox between what they see in the reality, where the calm policy decisions of Obama are being hailed throughout the world, and the frenzied, maniacal world of fantasy created by the RW, and now mass corporate media, a world of doom and gloom, has surely driven millions of them over the edge.....lemmings more than sheep, following their pandering "leaders" over a cliff - soon enough.

[merrily]

2. Wanna laugh? The right thinks CNN is Communist Network News.

CNN!

Now, I ask you.

[Octafish]

3. Alex Carey: 'Propaganda-Taking the Risk Out of Democracy'

Maria Gilardin reports the people of the US have been subjected to the most costly, unparalleled, 3/4 century propaganda effort by corporations in order to expand corporate rights, limit democracy and destroy the unions. Her webcast covers the history from WWI to Reagan. It centers on Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda. When Noam Chomsky dedicated his book "Manufacturing Consent" to the memory of Alex Carey, he said that the Australian sociologist would have written the definitive history of propaganda in the US, had he lived to complete his work. The 20th century, Carey says, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy.

Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda

The Attack on Democracy

The 20th century, said Carey, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era. Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power.

John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still unknown.

Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide. Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda project up to date.

This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.

SOURCE: http://tucradio.org/new.html

Here's the first part (scroll down at the link for the second part) on Carey:

http://tucradio.org/AlexCarey_ONE.mp3

[lonestarnot]

4. News Nation is after mud flapp and neoprina this morning. LIARS.

[Scuba]

5. Not a problem. MSNBC is a "complete counterbalance" to Fox, or so said a winger I know.

[spanone]

7. K&R...