Les Lemke
Mass Media - the propagand arm of the government
Sun Jul 27 21:14:04 2003
208.152.73.137

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Subject: Mass Media - the propagand arm of the government
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:49:19 -0700
From: "Les Lemke" leslemke@webenet.net


I've been saying it for years - that today's mass media is nothing more and nothing less than the propaganda arm of the U.S. Government. Now you can read what I've been saying for years in this article below.

- Les

"Fox serves -- voluntarily -- as the propaganda arm of a controversial,
manipulative, image-obsessed government"

Weapons Of Mass Stupidity
Fox News hits a new lowest common denominator

BY HAL CROWTHER

But the scariest thing about Fox and Rupert Murdoch, the thing
that renders them all fear and no fun in a time of national
crisis, is that they channel for the Bush administration as
faithfully as if they were on the White House payroll. Like no
other substantial media outlet in American history, Fox serves --
voluntarily -- as the propaganda arm of a controversial,
manipulative, image-obsessed government. To watch its war
coverage for even a minute was to grind your teeth convulsively
at each Orwellian repetition of the Newspeak mantra, "Operation
Iraqi Freedom." I swear I hate to stoop to Nazi analogies; but if
Joseph Goebbels had run his own cable channel, it would have been
indistinguishable from Fox News.

Fox's truculent patriotism is misleading, of course. Rupert
Murdoch is not exactly an American patriot, he's not even exactly
an American. Though he became an American citizen in 1985 (solely
to qualify, under US law, as the owner of a TV network), the
Australian Murdoch was already 54 and his tabloid formula had
already polluted the media mainstreams in Australia and Great
Britain. Murdoch is an insatiable parasite, a vampirish lamprey
who fastens himself to English-speaking nations and grows fat on
their cultural lifeblood, leaving permanently degraded media
cultures in his wake. Rabid patriotism is a product he sells,
along with celebrity gossip, naked women and smirky bedroom
humor, in every country he contaminates. And a little "white
rage" racism has always gone into his mix for good measure. ("He
tried so hard to use race to sell his newspapers that he became
known as "Tar Baby' Murdoch," Jimmy Breslin once charged.)

Full Article Source:
http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/newsstand/2003-06-04/news_cover.html

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