Bonanno: The people actually knew it?
Kupsc: Yes, everybody knew that they were lies. It was very simple. They were telling you one thing, but, when you’d walk out the door, you’d see another thing. There was no argument. Everybody knew it was a lie. Everybody had a “sixth sense”, if you will, to know how to read between the lines.
Bonanno: So, I assume there was no “Poland, right or wrong” attitude by which, even though they would tell you something yet you saw something else, you’d believe them rather than your own eyes – as there seems to be in some cases in the US.
Kupsc: Yes, because, unfortunately for Americans – and I’m an American, too, now. I have been for that last 15 years. That’s one of the reasons why I do care about America and its people. My son and my wife are American. That’s one of the reasons why I made this movie.
In general, in America, people have been pretty much conditioned to trust the media. There was never anything presented to the contrary. There was always like, we have an independent press, all these freedoms guaranteed to us in The Constitution – like freedom of expression. So, why would the media lie to us? Why would Walter Cronkite lie to us? We had all these great news anchors who were always being very honest with us. We should not question anything we hear on the 6 o’clock news.
The so called Fairness Doctrine, which was issued around 1928 for American radio, virtually forced broadcasters to provide equal air time to both sides of any argument. That doctrine went into effect, of course, with television in the ‘50s. We still had balanced debate between Left and Right or whatever the opposing forces were.
In 1988, Reagan, I should say his handlers, basically took The Fairness Doctrine out of the equation. Bill Clinton, I think around 1996, created The Telecommunications Act which abolished any semblance of balanced discourse in the media between opposing forces.
That led to a complete corporate takeover by the media and consolidation of media outlets which culminated with what we have now. We have 5 major news corporations controlling 5,000 TV stations and 14,000 radio stations in America today. This basically means that 5 CEOs tell the rest of the world what’s going on.
If you look at who these individuals are, you know that they have agendas. You know that they’re connected with the military/industrial complex and you can draw your own conclusions.
Bonanno: I’d like to direct you, if I may, to OpEdNews. Ray McGovern, who worked for the CIA for many years, posted an open letter to Colin Powell on OpEdNews. It was on the first page about three issues ago. The letter is an indication that Powell has expressed regret, but not to the extent that you’d like to see him express regret. At least he’s expressed some regret and McGovern is sort of asking him, “Why go half way? Let’s go all the way.”
Kupsc: I’d love to read it. I’ll look it up.
