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I have noticed the headlines have concentrated on Bush vs. Pelosi but the stories usually delve deeper.
I've made a deal with myself. I do my best not to read the news unless I can read the stories. A couple pages of headlines and I'm mumbling on the street corner with my "REPENT!" signs.
Shakran, how'd you like the News War 4-parter on PBS?
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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