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The Corporate-Controlled Media's Assault on Free Speech »

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Other than the internet, they hold a stranglehold over the kinds of news, information, entertainment and other programming and material most people get from which they form their views of the nation's state, its government, and the world. The media giants are master manipulators.

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jordan11
June 2, 2007, 4:45 p.m.
Yes, most people are aware that we no longer have a main stream press, but instead have a for profit, for political interests propaganda machine. But that doesn't mean there isn't real 'press' out there. The problem is, are people willing to find it?
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populist
June 3, 2007, 1:35 a.m.
an honest media is essential to a free society.
even napoleon knew the importance of the "media":
"I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets."
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flyonthewallzz
June 3, 2007, 3:47 p.m.
Rand detested many prominent liberal and conservative politicians of her time, including prominent anti-Communists, such as Harry S. Truman, Ronald Reagan, Hubert Humphrey, and Joseph McCarthy. She opposed US involvement in World War I, World War II and the Korean War, although she also strongly denounced pacifism: "When a nation resorts to war, it has some purpose, rightly or wrongly, something to fight for â;; and the only justifiable purpose is self-defense."
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ningyo
June 3, 2007, 7:53 a.m.
just more populist drivel--its one more-cookie cutter anti-american anti-bush article after another--i can this picture this guy in his basement bunker with his tinfoil hat and mac..waiting for the revoloution--the end is near--the end is near--wooo...
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tkyrchncs
June 3, 2007, 10:35 a.m.
It seems to me that the editorial stance of most media outlets is known to most of us before we even pick up today's copy, or tune in. Reporters pretty much have to work with that, but otherwise they have the same (or more) freedom to speak their minds as anyone else. If you think (or especially if you CAN PROVE) that some reporter is spouting drivel, call him on it. If it is a persistent problem do not support that forum or its advertisers, and tell them why. This really is pretty paranoid.