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Comments on: Let’s Get Real https://whynow.dumka.us/2013/06/25/lets-get-real/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:28:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2013/06/25/lets-get-real/comment-page-1/#comment-64158 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:24:45 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=29832#comment-64158 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.

]]> By: Badtux https://whynow.dumka.us/2013/06/25/lets-get-real/comment-page-1/#comment-64138 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 05:19:15 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=29832#comment-64138 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?

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