Let’s Get Real
The Main Stream Media has become the propaganda arm of the government, and the corporations that own it.
All of the dishonesty and ignorance they have displayed regarding the Snowden revelations show clearly where their allegiances lie, and it isn’t with the Constitution or the people of the United States.
Edward Snowden will most probably be given asylum somewhere because of the way the US government treated Bradley Manning. According to what I was taught in SERE training, Bradley Manning was tortured, and according to the Uniform Code of Military Justice he was denied a speedy trial. Everyone who doesn’t depend on the US media for information, knows this.
The US media refuse to report on facts that don’t please their corporate masters or their government contacts.
It doesn’t make any difference to the fact that the US government has been conducting unConstitutional monitoring of US citizens why Snowden revealed the programs. When the media reports the claims that these programs have been useful as facts, when those claims come from the same people who have been lying about the existence of these programs for years, they demonstrate that they are government propagandists, not journalists.
The media ignore the fact that there are no legal protections for whistleblowers in the intelligence field. You can’t, by legal definition, be a whistleblower if you work in intelligence, you can only be a ‘traitor’.
First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist.Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.Martin Niemöller
The members of the media might want to keep that in mind, when they see members of their ‘club’ attacked for leaking.
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This reminds me of the perhaps apocryphal story from decades back of a Soviet diplomat visiting the HQ of a major newspaper and, baffled, asked “where are the censors?” When informed that there are no government censors in U.S. newspaper offices, he was even more baffled. “How, then, do all the major newspapers in the USA seem to report the same stories from the same government point of view every day?”
No one answered.
When I compare what is reported in the U.S. press versus what is reported in the foreign press, I wonder the same thing. Izvestia on the Potomac and Tass on the Hudson seem to do a fine job of lifting the government’s luggage despite lack of any official government censors telling them what to print, and everybody pretends they don’t notice. Funny, huh?
There is nothing in the world to compare to the self-censorship of the US media. No one works harder to find ‘bright and shiny objects’ to distract people when something their masters don’t like is happening.
Anyone on the outside watching CNN would soon believe that almost all victims of crime in the US are pretty, young, blond, white women, their choice of ‘bright and shiny objects’.
All adjectives in the US media are comparative because there is no correct answer to anything, there is always an opposing opinion that must be given equal credence.