U.S. media like to mock Pravda, Granma, Al Ahram, Russia Today, Press TV, etc. as state media organs. But I recall a Rudyard Kipling quote from the height of the British empire:

"You cannot hope to bribe or twist — thank God — the British journalist.
But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's really no occasion to."

(A few decades ago, a Canadian royal commission report on newspaper monopolies had the insight to use this quotation. Of course the government of the day did nothing to break up the monopolies the report warned of.)

Broadcasting, depending on advertisers, had been marginalizing critical voices. Public subsidies were provided to overcome the economic liabilities of informing.

Important to the "Reagan Revolution" was subduing public broadcasting….. hammering it as too "liberal".

An informed public is now viewed as undesirable.

Fairness is in their name and they show they are behind it and in front of doing so even from the odious mouth piece Fox "News." Because every reporter needs the same protections or they are all in danger.

His voice, made metallic by
the amplifiers, boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings, rapings, torture of prisoners, bombing of civilians, lying propaganda, unjust aggressions, broken treaties. It was almost impossible to listen to him without being first convinced and then maddened. At every few moments the fury of the crowd boiled over and the voice of the speaker was drowned by a wild beast-like roaring that rose uncontrollably from thousands of throats. The most savage yells of all came from the schoolchildren. The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a messenger hurried on to the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker's hand. He unrolled and read it without pausing in his speech. Nothing altered in his voice or manner, or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different. Without words said, a wave of understanding rippled through the crowd. Oceania was at war with Eastasia! The next moment there was a tremendous commotion. The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all wrong! Quite half of them had the wrong faces on them. It was Sabotage! The agents of Goldstein had been at work! There was a riotous interlude while posters were ripped from the walls, banners torn to shreds and trampled underfoot. The Spies performed prodigies of activity in clambering over the rooftops and cutting the streamers that fluttered from the chimneys. But within two or three minutes it was all over. The orator, still gripping the neck of the microphone, his shoulders hunched forward, his free hand clawing at the air, had gone straight on with his speech. One minute more, and the feral roars of rage were again bursting from the crowd. The Hate continued exactly as before, except that the target had been changed.

While the subject in this instance is the way the corporate media create and amplify scandals, one essay-length “comment” calls for the denial of any help for illegal immigrants, the ouster of “conceited moron” J. Russell George (The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, who happens to be black), and a flat tax. Then there’s the FAIR Troll with three incoherent, name-calling comments so far on this posting alone. Obama is a socialist, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is a “political punk,” etc., etc.

My suggestion: Let’s all try to keep it short and on-point, and don't feed the trolls.

September 12, 2012 was the date of Chis Stevens death in the Bengazi attack.

It's in their interest to put out such a line, whether they think it's true or not, isn't it?

Propaganda may be true, have some element of truth to it, or be wholly fallacious.

Time will tell where this fits on that spectrum.

Here's an interview of Ed Herman, co-author of Manufacturing Consent (published 25 years ago) on the propaganda model and the books significance today:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=9977

Also recommended: everything by Michael Parenti

Newshour anchor Margaret Warner is on the Board of Directors of the CFR. Jim Lehrer and Judy Woodruff are also members of the CFR.

Charlie Rose is a member of the CFR and a Bilderberg attendee

Just a little teapot scandal that Nancy set right. Luckily, it had no effect outside the beltway — except on what was left of American democracy, and on a scarred, traumatized small country that suffered horrible deprivation and thousands of deaths at the hands of American-paid mercenaries.

Chris Matthews for State Dept. spokesman — officially!

From itself

It wasn't some 14 years later when president-selected George W referenced the genocide specifically to make the case to go to war with Iraq. Keep in mind that Daddy Bush's Operation Desert Storm (two years later) had absolutely nothing to do with the genocide, and everything to do with driving Saddam's forces out of Kuwait.

Alway repeats itself

http://dankennedy.net/2013/05/16/targeting-of-ap-neither-new-nor-illegal-just-outrageous/

Huh?

Are you implying that FAIR has so much power that the country has lost trillions of dollars as a result? If any one comment proves the total invalidness of your comments, that one is it.

Anyone who knows anything about the situation in the SU knows that it would have fallen when it did whether Reagan or a Democrat (or other Republican) was in office.

There is a strange source for partial proof of this. There was a documentary done on how people in the SU were able to smuggle in music by The Beatles, and in this documentary, more than a couple of people blamed that and other 'underground' things as being the real reason for the fall, NOT Reagan, or any other outside government.
The people of the SU had tasted Western popular culture and were not ready to give it up.

A similar example is how when Czechoslovakia became free, it was because of the "Velvet Revolution" so named by Václav Havel as he is a fan of the Velvet Underground.

Governments the world over do not take into account how much popular culture can affect their people, especially when they try to prevent peoples' access to it.

As predicted: "…despite speaking of such things today provoking lunacy and outrage in adherents to the Way Things Are." Or, in your case, a resort to childish name-calling and a reductive account of how the economy supposedly works.

Let's modify your example slightly to align with reality. Suppose three giant corporations own 80% of the lemonade stand market. The government has been working for a decade on the next innovation in lemonade-making technology, in research centers nearly 100% funded by taxpayer dollars, but of course with a few measly corporate dollars thrown in so they can keep a foot in the door. The technology is finally proven and stable, so it gets "sold" (or perhaps simply handed over, as with the Internet) to the major lemonade corporations for a fraction of the total cost of the research. The corporations then take full credit for the "innovation" and their noble "entrepreneurship" and proceed to extract the highest possible prices from consumers, for the basic reason that they have enough power to do so. They may need $X "to survive" (we're not supposed to question whether major corporations "surviving" is desirable – we just accept it like good little North Koreans), but they make $X + 50%, and invest their vast profits into financial assets that destabilize the real economy, political campaigns to "reduce the deficit" (i.e., a thinly-veiled excuse to kill social security, medicare, food stamps – anything that the poor rely on) and break the Lemonade Workers Union, while constantly threatening to move lemonade production offshore to Third World countries with zero labour rights and starvation-level wages. Once in a while, the corporations engage in a price war, not because consumers demand lower prices, but to undercut one another and acquire a bigger chunk of the market, and thus enjoy more power over their rivals (and consumers). And on and on it goes…

Yes, what a glorious and miraculous economy we have. If it takes being a "nutcase" to see it, then nutcase I am.

There are other options, too, besides simply continuing the cycle of "make rich people happy" policies, like lowering corporate tax rates, which will never end. For instance, if we can begin to sweep away the clouds of indoctrination and propaganda surrounding the matter, we can ask a serious of obvious questions: What do corporate profits have to do with economic well-being? Why are profits the highest priority? Why do the interests of shareholders come first – why not workers, the community, the environment?

Fortunately, there is no law of nature that requires profits to be the highest concern of an economy in order for it to function properly. Similarly, there is no law of nature that demands the rich be taken care of, at great cost to the society – nor that we use destructive and inefficient markets to allocate resources, nor that people rent themselves to private tyrannies (corporations) in order to survive. Such notions were widespread and natural just 100 years ago, with even the Republican party running a campaign against "wage slavery", despite speaking of such things today provoking lunacy and outrage in adherents to the Way Things Are.

In fact, if anything, social media actual does that work for you.

So, If you can't find anything nasty to say then you resort to straw man arguments? Why do you even come to FAIR?

sorry. that was rhetorical, as I will be skipping over any comments you make.

Or perhaps does the reason lay elsewhere, deeply embedded in the basic institutional structures of the economy – and people are pretty much just rationally responding as best they can to the conditions they're faced with (e.g., lack of information about working conditions under which products are made; pressure to buy low-priced products due to little time, declining wages, etc.)? I personally think it's the latter.

The only information we get about any given product has two aspects: 1) the price, and 2) whatever the producer chooses to tell consumers about it (i.e., marketing). We have no idea what quantities are available apart from what we can see on the shelves (there could be 10 widgets on the shelf but 10,000 in the warehouse being held back to drive the price up), we only know what's in a product or how it's produced to the extent that the producer reveals that information, and so on. Think of the ubiquitous "spices" or "natural flavors" listed as ingredients in processed foods and this becomes obvious in about half a second. This is especially true when it comes to working conditions; we can guess that working conditions are pretty awful when a shirt produced in Thailand is being sold for $2 at Walmart, for instance, but we'd have to do a hell of a lot of investigative research to even get the slightest notion of what the true conditions are like – that information is simply not part of what we're given when we make a buying decision.

I would personally be very cautious in blaming people for not caring enough about what they buy when consumers are systemically denied the information they need to make ethical buying decisions. Additionally, people absolutely *do* care, and go to amazing lengths to discover working conditions, wages, manufacturing processes, food ingredients, etc., etc. There are plenty of groups, movements and individuals spending plenty of time and energy on figuring out stuff like that (e.g., organic food movement, vegans, child labor rights activists, consumer rights movements, anti-Walmart/Nike/whatever groups, etc.) – yet another indicator of the miraculous efficiency of market economies.

maybe even sneak a eak at DNA if hes done that——-of course iv got the fingerprints and criminal file–any background search data –ever?

His college—-his parents—past address—roommates—auto registration—-homes—travel habits–credit card activity—-IP addresses

Cellphone—–auto GPS—now I can track JQP in real time…!!!

I can see his face anytime I want via his computer—–it matches the all-state drivers license——I know hs weight hair color eyes and height—-

I know what prescription drugs he takes

I know more about him than he does–I have a profile that tells me with 90%accuracy what hell do tomorrow–next week —next year.

Now to TARGET my real enemies? Search words–once v got my data assembled—time to get to work with some serious targeting.
Search words—-Showed up on that nasty organization list I seized—15points, uses Obama vs President Obama.—-shows dislike for my guy—15 points…………….uses racial slurs in emails—-30 points

owns guns purchased since 2007—40 points………..
lives in one of those awful red zip codes—-50 points
military background–100 points

emails other anti-establishment persons 20 points per person

relatives have similar profiles——-100 points

lives in Midwest or southeast–add 50 points even if a blue zone

uses terms in emails such as "hate" within 10 characters of government or Obama or President or black or "slur terms" 500 points

do I have enough yet to refer to Secret Service—-????? Did he make the When President Obama Visits that town Roundup List" Yet??
or just the surveillance list?
Or lesser standard–DHS?

Did he make it to the DHS in times of natl emergency "Roundup list" yet? ????

Does such a list exist?

How does one make such a list?

How many points do you have reader?

Do you get points for posting here?

Do you get points for reading this post?

are you "chilled" yet?

Last time I checked, my desktop was hardwired to my apartment's interior outlets, despite being connected to my wireless home network. So there is no difference.

Secondly, in Katz, the Court made no distinction and gave no bearing to Katz's use of a third-party (phone company) to transmit what can only be called digital information. Therefore, that should have no bearing on our reasonable expectation of privacy.

Thirdly, because the federal government allows cable and phone companies to have monopolies (despite FTC laws), customers have no options to do business with companies who do not transmit data freely to the government—and most don't even disclose whether or not they do!

Finally, it is easy to get a warrant for searching a person's computer if probable causes exists to the degree that an impartial judge believes it's legal. If the gov decides to search my computer, more power to them—so long as they have a warrant.

These provisions are what the Bill of Rights protects because the colonists did not have rights or freedoms and wanted to prevent abuses from taking place. Just because it's 2013 and new technologies exist, it does not give the government the right to turn this into Elizabethan England where people are guilty until presumed innocent.

AT LEAST TRY TO BE FAIR AND BALANCED. THEN YOU COULD GET A JOB ON MSNBC.

You want to know something? Come ask me, I will tell you….

Its also irrefutable that the Open Border entities that are tirelessly pushing for their sickening agenda. whereas the business community wants an escalation of Guest Workers and using any of the illegal aliens who can reach America, that swamp our borders or impersonate visitors slipping deliberately past the net of immigration agents waiting for airport arrivals. Then the Obama Democrats whose ideology is the more illegal aliens that receive a path to citizenship will be instilled with Socialistic ideals, that promote that the United States in becoming a “Welfare Nation”. Its despicable that Department of Agriculture (USDA) is publicizing those illegal immigrants can collect their share of food Stamps. These people come here to this country expecting for free—everything and getting it from this administration. BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP is an enigma that needs to be once and for all interpreted according to the 14th Amendment that originally awarded citizenship to slaves, not to decades of illegal immigrant babies. A cost that is staggering in hundreds of billions of dollars every year, with money that should go to citizens.

This escalating issue with Internal Revenue Service has become a giant entity on its own, a megalithic monster that is supposedly impartial, but listening to this Ways and Means committee, that this agency has got way out of hand with fear tactics.It wasn’t so long ago that the IRS was issuing Child Tax Credit reimbursement for at today’s estimate $7.4 Billion dollars. Has anything been done to resolve parents of illegal alien children getting an average of $1800.00, when these people have never paid into the tax system are sent a check owing to a idiosyncrasy in the code? Using Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) numbers and stolen Social Security Numbers they are cheating the American people? Its even incredulous that the IRS is uncontrolled can issue blatantly obvious government checks to the children of illegal aliens living outside the jurisdiction of this nation. WHY IS IT THESE VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW THAT ARE BROUGHT UP IN COMMITTEE, AND THEN DISAPPEAR FROM PUBLIC VIEW, EVEN WHEN BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE BEING LITERARY STOLEN, BECAUSE CONGRESS WILL NOT ACT?

The IRS is now in the searing spotlight, held are going to be accountable for using their overwhelming power to intimidate, even frighten donors of nonprofit organizations. I read that a former criminal investigator for the Illinois Department of Revenue for nearly a decade, Benson said he has “17,000 certified and notarized documents showing that the 16th Amendment to collect taxes is an absolute, complete and total fraud.”

On May 17th, CNS News blogger, Mike Ciandella has written this startling initial paragraph, about what behind this hidden coercion:

As IRS efforts targeting politically-conservative groups gained momentum, George Soros-funded liberal groups repeatedly called on the IRS to investigate conservative nonprofit organizations.
While the first reported instances of extra IRS scrutiny for conservative groups began in Cincinnati in March of 2010, the attacks began to pick up steam on a national level soon after Soros-funded groups began firing off letters to the IRS in October of that year – following the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.
The talking points of these groups then bounced around a carefully created progressive "echo chamber," until they eventually made their way into established media outlets. Key IRS policy changes about how it investigated conservative groups took place soon after it received three separate letters sent by Soros-funded liberal organizations.
Several Soros-funded groups including the Campaign Legal Center, Democracy 21, and the Center for Public Integrity, Mother Jones and Alternet have worked to pressure the IRS to target conservative nonprofit groups. The subsequent IRS investigation flagged more than 100 tea party-related applications for higher scrutiny, including applications that included the words "Tea Party" and "patriot." READ MORE ON THE WEBSITE.

Each of us have to wonder if this conceited moron RS Inspector General Russell George, is really going to retire or be whisked away by Obama’s executives to another good paying job in some other agency as it happens time and time again?

The time has come to tear down IRS agency that has a rotten to the core from the top executives to lower management and implement a simple easy flat tax code. Under this terrible system half of America gets a free ride, while hard working Americans, get the shaft? Nobody should be excused; nobody–that can be accomplished by a system of paying for everything that every American buys. Even a Value added tax (VAT ) that is present in the United Kingdom. Hundreds of billions of dollars are never taxed of the wealthy corporations or businesses. Thousands of effluent people favored by the Washington elites get waivers and exemptions and also the deadbeats, the parasite that are not only illegal immigrants, but citizens incur no taxes at all, except buying gas, property taxes. We must demand a “FAIR & UNBIASED” code so all those who use the services in every town, city pay their fair share.

First free food stamps and now this: WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS. WITH MILLIONS OF AMERICANS UNABLE TO FIND WORK, THESE POLITICIANS WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT US, ARE READY TO SELL US OUT ONCE AGAIN, AS IN 1986?

If you're against amnesty, tell Washington "KNOCK IT OFF" now before it's too late. This is urgent. Tell Congress, "AMNESTY IS BAD FOR AMERICA! VOTE NO!" and do it today by phoning the central Washington switchboard at toll-free t 1-888-978-3094. We can win this fight with your help with prudent taxpayers. Read the huge amounts of daily information disclosed on AmericanPatrol. This is the articles, blogs and media reports that are a must avidly read. Learn so much more about illegal immigration bills at JudicialWatch and NumbersUSA.

Every day I'm more distraught by the pending Amnesty Bill. Today we learned that if this bill passes, illegals would be eligible for welfare immediately.

As you can observe Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) found scores of loopholes that would allow illegal’s to draw public benefits on federal, state and local levels even sooner than advertised.

We've got to stop Congress from passing it. Please, do your part by blasting every member of the House and Senate with a message from you that says, "AMNESTY IS A BAD
DEAL. JUST SAY NO!" If it passes, in just six months illegals will be eligible to live and work here–despite the Gang of Eight promising illegals would not be allowed to access public benefits. Welfare for illegals–and their dependents–will fall on our backs. This, on an already overtaxed system that's bleeding us dry and can't support our own citizens.

Just another sad example of the loss of all our freedoms.

Or that he'd be able to explain the difference.

Now it seems he is following the status quo script completely in this idea of blaming the people for wanting what is offered to them in the consumer space, when the question of worker safety and pay is never discussed or offered as a remedy.

The idea is absurd and just rings hollow of the kind of nakedly moronic reasoning and explanations and that should have us all offending and up in arms that the corporate sector is trying to take over everything by mass manipulating, ie. mass producing Alice in Wonderland gobble-dee-gook nonsense that most of us can see is balderdash.

Well, assuming that is what James wrote or said anyway.

It's not the labor anyway that makes prices low, prices are not low – at least compared to what workers get. Prices are low because whatever is happening is happening far away from our shores in a distant land where the industry is managed in a virtual monopoly or supply. What goes into a clothes, mostly labor, and the pay for that labor is so low that trying to tell me the prices are limited by the labor costs is indeed insulting to me.

Whatever the price or labor is the price of product will be whatever the market can bear – period. When they sent shirts offshore to be produced in Viet Nam, Cambodia, etc the prices when up, not down, but the selection did go up in my opinion l

Only those between ostensibly hostile elites

And only when there is some discordance between them.

When all are in agreement, such as on the virtues of "the free market" or righteous US exceptionalism

They can be counted on to add their voice to the harmonizing, can't they?

"And only a liberal(you?) would automatically equate drilling for our God given abundance as a stain on the earth by definition."

Well there it is. If "god" gave it to us, we surely MUST use it… even though it will destroy the planet "god" made. Your god sure does have a sense of humor.

"When a thirsty man comes to a clear mountain stream do you say drink "baby' drink or do you say,die of thirst less yee may foul that water?"

Yeah 'cause that's even remotely the same as pumping millions of tons of pollution into our dwindling water supply.

"Veegans who would die, rather than eat what their gut bacteria,teeth structure ,and every other physiology indicates is their natural food."

This is a blatant straw man attempt, and completely irrelevant. Name ONE vegan who died from refusing to eat meat.

"Sir you can be a good Steward of the earth while utilizing its gifts."

Yes, we CAN, but we're NOT. Are water, wind, solar rays, and heat from the earth's core NOT "gifts of the earth?"

Btw, I'm a ma'am, not a sir.

"Well if you have your way there will be no highways."

Actually, that would be the fault of YOUR "lot" since they refuse to approve a single infrastructure bill.

Reference: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/135/522/415/rename-newseums-terrace-now-honoring-convicted-felon-with-irgun-terrorist-ties/

Newspeak is old news, innit?

http://fair.org/media-beat-column/mass-media-hatred-of-american-labor/