Buying The War

August 14th, 2007

I watched a fascinating documentary on PBS this past week, called Buying The War, that was put together by renowned veteran journalist Bill Moyer and company. The documentary examines how the media basically became the mouth piece for the government in drumming up war fervor instead of taking a critical look at the evidence. It includes interviews with news reporters and editors, some of whom you’ll know on site.

You HAVE TO watch this. I don’t think that even most aware and politically conscious people (much less the masses of people who are not conscious), really understand the depth and the gravity to which media collusion with government, and the lack of a truly “free and independent press” spells the death of any real freedom and democracy. I think it all goes back to how it is the common notion in grade school, which carries on with people throughout life, that history is boring and irrelevant to ones life. If you understood how throughout history such collusion has been easily one of the major weapons of oppression, tyranny and thought control of the populace, then you would realize how absolutely detrimental and relevant this is.

Buying The War
Video
www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/video_popups/pop_vid_btw1-1.html
Transcripts
www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/transcript1.html

Bill Moyer’s Journal
www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html

A Collection of 9/11 Frontline Reports - You can watch half of them online. I watch these and other frontline reports online all the time. They’re great.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/terror/

Frontline World News – I just stumbled across this the other day. Can’t personally vouch for it, but its another news source outside of the norm.
www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/watch/

The utter lack of critical review in the run up to the war in Iraq by the media at large is why on an issue like The Jena Six we must press the media hard to pick up the story and to look into it in depth. “We The People” have to make the press do their job as “the fourth institution” of governmental “checks and balance”; otherwise our freedom is virtually dead.

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2 Responses to “Buying The War”

  1. sauerkraut on August 14th, 2007 6:26 pm | link

    Ever read the works from Project Censored? This is a program run from Sonoma State University in California. They publish annually a list the top censored stories, and update those items on a near-yearly basis.

    There is a process for nominating stories. I suggest you encourage your blog readers to nominate the Jena6 story. The next deadline for nominations is March 2008.

    Barnes & Nobles and Borders has their latest book, the 30th anniversary edition, “Censored 2007: The Top 25 Censored Stories.”

    The paperback book has a maroon cover with white letters. It goes for $18.95.

    Nominating instructions are contained on page 431. I may post those, provided I get their consent.

    Contact info: censored@sonoma.edu.

  2. D. Yobachi Boswell on August 14th, 2007 7:09 pm | link

    Good looking out on the info again. I may look to post on that down the road since we have until March. I hadn’t heard of it before.

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