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October 5, 2008 at 15:36:19

Corporate Media: The Missing Headlines

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Corporate Media: The Missing Headlines

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Rand Clifford

While compulsory lying, distractions and inane diversions reduce our fourth estate into corporate government's fifth column, it seems omission is the key tactic so solidly embedding mainstream corporate media into an exploiter of the people. Americans remain well informed regarding celebrities, entertainment, sports and weather--but when it comes to information people need to vote intelligently, understand what corporate government is really up to, or understand environmental issues, corporate media is little more than special-interest propaganda. And when it comes to the complex relationship of the nation and its citizens to the 95% of global population that are not American...strategies such as omission perpetuate the fossilized notion of "we're number one" being all that Americans really need to know.

So what if instead of subjugating, dividing and stupefying the people, corporate media actually lived up to its noblest reason for being and served the peoples' best interests? What might be some of the headlines we'd see, and the essence driving them?

Perhaps....

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Closed-door session of the House prompts representative outrage, leaks

(March 13, 2008) The House of Representatives held only its sixth closed session since 1812, and the first since July 1983, when it secretly discussed U.S. support for the Contras in Nicaragua. The publicly stated reason for the recent closed session was for members to discuss new citizen surveillance provisions. However, conversations off the record have indicated that the meeting was primarily about nine key issues:

1) the imminent collapse of the U.S. economy to occur by September 2008

2) the imminent collapse of U.S. federal government finances by February 2009

3) the possibility of civil war inside the USA as a result of the collapses

4) advance round-ups of "insurgent U.S. citizens" (those opposing the New World Order) likely to move against the government

5) detention of those rounded-up at "REX 84"camps constructed throughout the USA

6) possibility of retaliation against members of Congress for the collapses

7) the location of "safe facilities" for members of Congress and their families to reside during expected massive civil unrest

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Rand Clifford is a writer living in Spokane, Washington, with his wife Mary Ann, and their Chesapeake Bay retriever, Mink. His novels CASTLING, TIMING, and VOICES OF VIRES are published by StarChief Press.

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Sara DeHart is a freelance writer living in the Northwest.
Sara DeHartSara DeHart is a freelance writer living in the Northwest.

"Corporate Media: The Missing Headlines"

Rand Clifford goes to the heart of the problem in our current era--corporate media is owned and operated for and by corporations. There is little danger of the American people becoming informed about key issues that affect their lives.

For those of who who have seen the film "V for Vendetta" we are very close to that situation now. For those who say "it could never happen here" I invite you to read all of Rand Clifford's essays and view "V for Vendetta". All we need is one more incident of Anthrax letters to loose martial law upon our county. SSD

by Sara DeHart (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments) on Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 10:56:40 PM
 


Fulbright in 1966-67; Visiting Lecturer in American Literature with Baghdad University/Texas University Exchange Program. Guest Lecturer for the American Authors Lecture Series for the United States Information Service in Iraq.

Co-authored with Carole Chaney "Baghdad Letters" in 2003, a collection of letters and journals written in 1966-67 in Iraq.
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Jay FarringtonFulbright in 1966-67; Visiting Lecturer in American Literature with Baghdad University/Texas University Exchange Program. Guest Lecturer for the American Authors Lecture Series for the United States Information Service in Iraq.

Co-authored with Carole Chaney "Baghdad Letters" in 2003, a collection of letters and journals written in 1966-67 in Iraq.
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Truth can be scary, but a good kind of scary; Thanks, Rand

It's always been the media that created America's idea of itself; media wrote our history, it wrote our destiny; it wrote, televised and recorded our image of ourselves. It was never real, any more than the pages of a magazine or digital images are real. They "represent" reality.

Where the rub comes is that media (msm) may have always been, and certainly is now, in service of the facist corporate state. Oh no! It shatters not only our illusions, but our dreams as well.

If America is not what we collectively think it is, what the hell is it? Sad to say, it is no more; it has been fragmented. America is a billion separate and special interests, none of which is altruistic. We have devolved into a Darwinian hell where money is god and greed is our creed. So, goodbye, America. Media made it; media broke it.

Now media is but a tool to pacify the masses.

Maybe we should just be thankful it's not a fire hose!

 

by Jay Farrington (13 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 223 comments) on Monday, October 6, 2008 at 8:56:06 AM
 

 

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