Pravda: Great Lies of the American free press

[KyndCulture]

This came across our wire at Radio News America this morning. I was extremely moved by this piece dissecting our media from the Russian perspective of the cold war. I am having trouble connecting to their site consistantly so I will give the the link to the story on our site and the link to Pravda. It's a total MUST READ for anyone working for media reform. How many ways can we say IT'S THE MEDIA, STUPID!!

KyndCulture
Radio News America

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Is freedom of the American press a myth?In several previous PRAVDA articles, I discussed the Bush dictatorship's prominent use of Adolph Hitler's "great lie theory" - the political tactic where a leader fabricates "great lies," then "eternally" repeats them until a significant portion of the population comes to accept them as truth. The Bush dictatorship also discovered a residual benefit of the "great lie theory": People are often so myopic or so embarrassed by their gullibility that, even after the "great lies" are exposed, they would rather reward the liar than acknowledge the lie.

This benefit, however, has also revealed the disquieting reality that far too many people in the United States, arguably the most powerful nation on earth, do not require legitimate reasons before they will acquiesce to the wasting of billions of tax dollars, and the sacrificing of thousands of lives, in wars based upon nothing but lies.

There, of course, are those who claim the "great lie theory" cannot work in democratic countries like America, because, unlike nations with government-controlled media, there is "freedom of the press." But this criticism is easily muted by the events that occurred a little over fifty years ago, during the height of the "Cold War" era.

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For the reasons mentioned above, the hands of America's corporate-controlled news media are now dripping with the blood of those sacrificed in a war promoted and exploited for ratings and profit. May this blood that has been shed for their greed never wash clean, lest we forget how easily corruption, avarice and deceit can usurp democracy, blacken the hearts of humanity, and destroy the soul of a nation.

David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of PRAVDA



This came across our wire at Radio News America this morning. I was extremely moved by this piece dissecting our media from the Russian perspective of the cold war. I am having trouble connecting to their site consistantly so I will give the the link to the story on our site and the link to Pravda. It's a total MUST READ for anyone working for media reform.

http://www.radionewsamerica.com/index.php?blog=2&p=2007&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/399/15516_greatlietheory.html

[wallwriter]

1. Grotesque and sickening. We have become what we are supposed to hate most

A dictatorship of lies.