Media Power and Media Control

Between the wars Claud Cockburn realized that the newspapers of the day were feeding the public a very bland version of reality, the reality that was the common currency of diplomats, journos and even politicians. His insight led him to publish The Week which was fun, subversive and, in practice, impossible to sue. A libel action can take your money but if you have none, you are much safer. The Week has gone but now we have a new irritant for those who dislike the truth.

This  new wild card  is the Internet. Designed by DARPA for military communications, it has given ordinary people the ability to communicate worldwide. It is fair to say that a lot of their communication is third rate or worse but some is better. Telling the gold from the dross is not too difficult. The real payoff is that it bypasses the media moguls and governments. That is why we must be deeply suspicious of anyone who is selling us the solution to problems on the Net. Pornography is not pleasant. We hear the stories. Some of them might even be true. Yes; Spam is a problem. Certainly we could all do without it but offers to control the Net and prevent it are offers to control our lives; offers to give governments the power that they all seem to like far too much. If the choice on offer is Spam or government, I will settle for Spam.

Media Cover-up
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Leading Journalists Expose Major Cover-ups by Media Corporations
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Systematic lying tells me that there is an agenda [ or more ]. Journos write about the cover ups that were forced onto them. They found out about the power in the press as distinct from the power of the press. Systematic, deliberate, wide ranging lies are propagated by the press. People have decided to talk. See what the insiders have to say at:- http://www.wanttoknow.info/mediacover-up

 

Who Runs the Media? The Full Story
Someone else has taken the point that the media are controlled by Jews, which in practice means Zionists. He gives us sources. They are checkable.

 

BBC
The Beeb is known, respected, trusted etc. but not everyone thinks they are perfect. Some of us think they abused the their position very cleverly. They have been at the forefront when it comes to inciting homosexuality. They have a motive for that. Their Alexa rating is 10 which implies that nine sites get more traffic. See BBC Online

 

Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
by Bernard Goldberg. He was an insider then it all went wrong. More at Media Distortion

 

Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940
Towering Men and Stout-Hearted Sisters. Jerusalem Post, March 9, 2000 - is a broken link sadly but see http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-pornography-archive.html which is live.
[ Book review of Jewish scholar Jay Gertzman's Bookleggers an Smuthounds ]
"A great many of the publishers and peddlers of what was variously called flagitious, pornographic, or erotic literature were Jews, and most of those were German Jews who had learned the printing trades in the old country. This fact of course fed right into the animosity of anti-smut crusaders who constantly decried the 'foreign, radical, corrupting' character of the smut peddlers. The main protagonists in this battle for the soul, if not the groin, of America were the patrician John Saxton Sumner of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, and Samuel Roth, a writer, poet and genuine man of letters and an equally authentic purveyor of sleaze.......

 

Mass-Mediated Terrorism- The Central Role of the Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism
The name tells you the view point. There is one review on Amazon which says that it skates over state terrorism and is rather third rate. Get it from the library then read for yourself. Think for yourself and decide for yourself.

 

Racism and the Media
The media are very big on racism and blaming Englishmen. The reality is not quite the same.

 

ABC's culture of contempt
The Australian Broadcasting Commission is an arm's length management organisation [ ALMO ] with its own left wing agenda and an enthusiasm for denying. Notice the names of the guilty,  or should I say, the accused? The agenda is exactly the same as that of the BBC, inciting communism and homosexuality plus other trendy nastiness.

 

Horrific Media Spikes
This offering from Ted Lang popped up somewhere else entitled Jews Spike the News. That is a fair title. He tells us about the Jew who left the Department of Defence with the benefit of a news black out after a US$1 trillion went missing. Yes, a trillion, which is to say a thousand billion. Even in a world inured to politicians wasting billions rather than mere millions, a trillion is a LOT of money to defraud or steal or lose or find or give to your little mates or what ever.

 

AIPAC: Still Spying, Still Tax-Exempt
How many espionage operations get tax exemption? Not too many is the answer especially if they happen to be known as spies. But if they also have political influence and media control it becomes that much easier. That is how AIPAC does it.

Haaretz
Is the publicly respectable face of Israel. It is widely read and on the Internet. It tells us things that Jewish politicians would prefer us not to know but there are significant differences between the English version and the Hebrew version which is for home consumption only.

 

BURYING THE LANCET - PART 1
The Lancet told us that that 100,000 had been killed in Iraq. The media and politicians claimed that they were incompetent and wrong or just plain wrong. The media  are liars with an agenda. So are the politicians of course. Here is a longish factual analysis.

 

BURYING THE LANCET - PART 2
Count deaths in the Congo and count deaths in Iraq. Get accepted without question for the Congo while getting  called incompetents over Iraq. This is from men who are deeply ignorant of maths except for the purposes of expense claims and tax fraud.

 

BURYING THE LANCET - Update
Various people with various degrees of expertise respond. We are invited to tell various journos and reptiles that they are ignorant patter merchants.

 

'We Don't Own the News Any More' [ 6 October 2005 ]
'We' don't control it totally either and even if 'we' did 'we' are not trusted any more. We [ real people as distinct from 'we' the media ]  have got our own news channels now. We can broadcast over the Internet. 'We' don't like it. 'We' have not got total control any more. Notice that the BBC acts as an arm of the police state, carrying out espionage operations against political dissidents [ of the right  but never the  left  ] and having them prosecuted - maliciously of course.

Any one who tells us that the Internet should be controlled should be regarded with grave suspicion. They will have the standard excuses; child pornography, identity theft and so on. The media is still immensely powerful. It is not as crude as the propaganda machine in the USSR. Subtlety makes it far  more effective.

 

BBC 'wanted to sack Humphrys' [ 6 October 2005 ]
Green and Thompson wanted to sack John Humphrys after he told the truth and was betrayed by a Labour spy. Sacking would have proved that they were toeing the government line. They bottled out when it when public.

 

Pysops = Psychological Operations
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"To this end," Vallely and co-author continued, "MindWar must be strategic in emphasis,............In its strategic context, MindWar must reach out to friends, enemies, and neutrals alike across the globe—neither through primitive 'battlefield' leaflets and loudspeakers of PSYOP nor through the weak, imprecise, and narrow effort of psychotronics—but through the media possessed by the United States which have the capabilities to reach virtually all people on the face of the Earth. These media are, of course the electronic media—television and radio. State of the art developments in satellite communication, video recording techniques, and laser and optical transmission of broadcasts make possible a penetration of the minds of the world such as would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. Like the sword Excalibur [King Arthur's magical sword—ed.], we have but to reach out and seize this tool; and it can transform the world for us if we have the courage and the integrity to enhance civilization with it. If we do not accept Excalibur, then we relinquish our ability to inspire foreign cultures with our morality. If they can then desire moralities unsatisfactory to us, we have no choice but to fight them on a more brutish level."
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The media are a weapon of war although I doubt that these twerps have what it takes to use it. They already are being used in the culture war being waged by Hollywood, the BBC and the rest of the alphabet soup that feed our children's minds.

 

Pulitzer-Winning Lies
Walter Durante reported from Russia under Stalin, claimed that there was no famine in the Ukraine and lied in his teeth. The New York Times suspected that he was lying and ran the stories anyway.