Tag: Media
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FOX News: State Television and Propaganda
State television! We like to think that state television is something that exists in autocratic nations like Russia or Cuba. Unfortunately, it exists in liberal democracies as well. Republican media strategist Roger Ailes, who served as paid consultant to Nixon and Bush Sr. in the 1970s and 1990s, launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly…
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The Media’s Preference for Profit over Democracy
Hi, Back in 2017, the New York Times published an article titled: CNN Had a Problem. Donald Trump Solved It – Inside the strange symbiosis between Jeff Zucker and the president he helped create. The NYT journalist interviewed the president of CNN, Jeff Zucker, where he admitted to the world that he wanted to incorporate the ESPN style of…
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Jimmy Carter’s Prophetic Warning to the Nation
On July 15, 1979, U.S. President Jimmy Carted delivered a speech to the nation titled: Energy and the National Goals – A Crisis of Confidence In the middle of the speech, Carter uttered some very prophetic words: In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God,…
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Military Propaganda in Sports, Movies, and TV
Ever wonder why there are so many military commercials during American sports games? It’s pretty obvious. On November 4, 2015, U.S. Senators Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and John McCain (R-AZ) released a new joint oversight report exposing widespread evidence that the Department of Defense (DOD) has been paying professional sports teams in the National Football League (NFL),…
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Religion: The Original “Fake News”
Let’s talk facts, truth, and “fake news”. Without question, the idea of “agreeing on a basic set of facts” has become one of the pressing issues of our time. There’s been a ton of material written on these subjects since the 2016 US presidential election. Durham University in England published a paper titled America and the…
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Noam Chomsky on How Businesses Sought to Destroy the Democratic Movements of the 1960s
Democracy Now! JUAN GONZÁLEZ: I wanted to take a—ask you to talk about a section of your book, Requiem for the American Dream, where you talk about this famous Powell Memorandum that Justice Powell sent to the Chamber of Commerce and to others, major business groups, in 1971, where he said that business is losing…
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“The Occupation of the American Mind” – Documentary Looks at Israel’s PR War in the United States
Democracy Now Article >> Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. As we continue our conversation, we go now to an excerpt of—we are speaking with Roger Waters, the famous British musician, founding member of the iconic…
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U.S. News: What do ESPN, Reality TV, and CNN have in common?
Came across this wonderful article in the NY Times: CNN Had a Problem. Donald Trump Solved It – Inside the strange symbiosis between Jeff Zucker and the president he helped create — The New York Times, By Jonathan Mahler, April 4, 2017 Jeff Zucker is the President of arguably one of the nation’s largest and most respected news media outlet, CNN.…