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Originally Posted by Boon Mee  Again, the media is very controlled, and shapes public opinion intentionally and unintentionally. |
Milkman, as usual, you got it right. The U.S. media will ignore or ridicule anyone (right or left) who threatens their interests. Noam Chomsky (recently voted the world's greatest living intellectual by his peers) is virtually banned from major networks. Meanwhile intellectual thugs like Sean Hannity and hare-brained skanks like Ann Coulter get air time whenever they want. Chomsky is too left for my tastes but he nailed it in his book 'Manufacturing Consent' when he said the essence of propaganda is not lies, but : 1.) topic selection (e.g. how much did we hear about the Indonesian massacres of 1965 and Timor or Rachel Corey being run over in broad daylight by an Israeli bulldozer?) and 2.) framing the issues (e.g., the only 'reasonable' positions regarding healthcare in the U.S. revolve around who will pay for old peoples' pills). And on the right, Pat Buchanan is viewed as an "isolationist" and 'Holocaust denier" because of unfair mainstream press coverage.