From DU Member: Piewhacket
Channel 2 (KTVU - Oakland California, a FOX affiliate) yesterday published the 'lipstick on a pig' story in newscast, but so obviously and deliberately mangled the story using edited excerpts that it omitted or completely distorted what happened and what was said.
As a result most people who watch that station do not know that McCain's campaign has just effectively called Palin a pig, then blamed Obama for it. The audience was not told what happened, only that Obama should apologize for it.
For the last ten years one of the most powerful men in the world, (the hundredth+-richest) has systematically constructed a propaganda machine and aligned himself with political interests at the far right, shaping the American republican party.
His interests in media are world-wide, and include key media in China. This propaganda playbook is straight from the third Reich. The consequences are of
worldwide significance.
I am a spirited defender of the US constitution, but while "Freedom of the press" IS essential for democracy IT IS NOT a suicide pack, folks. Media must be subject to reasonable regulation against consolidation and monopoly and such protections ARE ALSO essential to the existence of free press, and therefore democracy.
These protections have been completely undermined while America has been
lulled into focusing on tripe.
Call Them Out!
KTVU
P.O. Box 22222
Oakland, CA 94623
Phone: (510) 834-1212
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