I don't know if many people here trust the MSM, but for some who do and claim it is due to their independence from the government, that is bogus. The
government and the "big corporations connected with the government", control the MSM directly or indirectly.
It is an illusion. People for a long time had this idea that US is nothing like the regimes it is supporting in certain parts of the world, and
nothing like the regimes it installs in other parts of the world. That is completely true, but only in a sense that US is much more advanced capable
of creating much better political illusions than those regimes it supports, or holds in power, or installs.
Hey,
Egypt had elections too, did
you know? But it didn't have all the dazzles and emotional strings attached to it. Just like a magician distracting you with all the chatter, or some
other "magical words", to perform the trick and fool you, the same way politicians work, but once you realize and see it, you won't hesitate to say
"ohhhhhhhhhhh" or "%$#$" I'm stupid. But we are human.
The article below is not written by me, rather by Global Research, but a great article explaining what I mean above, all the non-sense they add to
elections, all the different branches of the government, all the supposed separation of powers, it is all a farce and is created to instigate the
sense of freedom, the freedom for acceptance of different opinions, and a sense of justice.
www.globalresearch.ca...
Never before has it been so important to have independent, honest voices and sources of information. We are – as a society – inundated and
overwhelmed with a flood of information from a wide array of sources, but these sources of information, by and large, serve the powerful interests and
individuals that own them. The main sources of information, for both public and official consumption, include the mainstream media, alternative media,
academia and think tanks.
The mainstream media is the most obvious in its inherent bias and manipulation. The mainstream media is owned directly by large multinational
corporations, and through their boards of directors are connected with a plethora of other major global corporations and elite interests. An example
of these connections can be seen through the board of Time Warner.
Time Warner owns Time Magazine, HBO, Warner Bros., and CNN,
among many
others. The board of directors includes individuals past or presently affiliated with: the Council on Foreign Relations, the IMF, the
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Warburg Pincus, Phillip Morris, and AMR Corporation, among many others.
Two of the most “esteemed” sources of news in the U.S. are the New York Times (referred to as “the paper of record”) and the Washington Post.
The New York Times has on its board people who are past or presently affiliated
with: Schering-Plough International (pharmaceuticals), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chevron Corporation, Wesco Financial
Corporation, Kohlberg & Company, The Charles Schwab Corporation, eBay Inc., Xerox, IBM, Ford Motor Company, Eli Lilly & Company, among others. Hardly
a bastion of impartiality.
And the same could be said for
the Washington Post, which has on
its board: Lee Bollinger, the President of Columbia University and Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Warren Buffett, billionaire
financial investor, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; and individuals associated with (past or presently): the Coca-Cola Company, New York
University, Conservation International, the Council on Foreign Relations, Xerox, Catalyst, Johnson & Johnson, Target Corporation, RAND Corporation,
General Motors, and the Business Council, among others.
It is also important to address how the mainstream media is intertwined, often covertly and secretly, with the government. Carl Bernstein, one of the
two Washington Post reporters who covered the Watergate scandal, revealed that there were over 400 American journalists who had “secretly carried
out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency.” Interestingly, “the use of journalists has been among the most productive means of
intelligence-gathering employed by the CIA.” Among organizations which cooperated with the CIA were the "American Broadcasting Company, the National
Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual
Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald-Tribune."
By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with
the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc. The CIA even ran a training program “to teach its agents to be journalists,” who were “then placed
in major news organizations with help from management.”
These types of relationships have continued in the decades since, although perhaps more covertly and quietly than before. For example, it was revealed
in 2000 that during the NATO bombing of Kosovo, “
several officers from the US Army's 4th Psychological
Operations (PSYOPS) Group at Ft. Bragg worked in the news division at CNN's Atlanta headquarters.” This same Army Psyop outfit had “planted
stories in the U.S. media supporting the Reagan Administration's Central America policies,” which was described by the Miami Herald as a “vast
psychological warfare operation of the kind the military conducts to influence a population in enemy territory.” These Army PSYOP officers
also worked at National Public Radio (NPR) at the same time. The
US military has, in fact, had a strong relationship with CNN.
In 2008, it was reported that
the Pentagon ran a major propaganda campaign by using
retired Generals and former Pentagon officials to present a good picture of the administration’s war-time policies. The program started in the
lead-up to the Iraq War in 2003 and continued into 2009. These officials, presented as “military analysts”, regurgitate government talking points
and often sit on the boards of military contractors, thus having a vested interest in the subjects they are brought on to “analyze.”
The major philanthropic foundations in the United States have often used their enormous wealth to co-opt voices of dissent and movements of resistance
into channels that are safe for the powers that be. As McGeorge Bundy, former President of the Ford Foundation once said, “Everything the Foundation
does is to make the world safe for Capitalism.”
Examples of this include philanthropies like the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
providing immense financial and organizational support to Non-Governmental Organizations. Furthermore, the alternative media are often funded by these
same foundations, which has the effect of influencing the direction of coverage as well as the stifling of critical analysis.
www.globalresearch.ca...
In reality there is only the elite which runs US and no vote can change that. The media is controlled by them, there is nothing that can be done to
change that either.
Internet has become a scapegoat for some, but I can guarantee one thing, that Internet will be clamp down on. As I said, "hokus pokus" and then
"kaboom" there goes the alternative media which is Internet.
How? Well, the "hokus pokus" has already started, "hey look behind you, it's a hacker", "hey watch out, a hacker coming to get ya".
The same "hokus pokus" used to keep a tighter grip on some enlightened Americans. Now they spy on every one and anyone, obviously people thought there
were laws in place to protect them etc. That isn't true, US is a dictatorship just like the regimes it supports and installs in other parts of the
world, the difference is, the US "hokus pokus" is more appealing.
I can go on and on and on about the false sense of reality injected in us through the media, and how now they are trying to crack down on the only
scapegoat (internet) from that false reality through more "hokus pokus", but that'll probably put you to sleep.
A wise man said once to keep it short, straight to the point. Sorry if I went on for too long, sometimes it happens, hope I learn (?).
edit on 29-6-2011 by confreak because: forgot link
