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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
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/video_popups/pop_vid_btw1-1.html
Transcripts
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/transcript1.html
Bill Moyer’s Journal
http://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.
http://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.
http://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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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.