10-29-2007, 11:28 AM
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Banned
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
If you only knew just how, well there isn't a nice way to say it, how ummm 'wrong' your comments are for someone who really comes from an oppressive government.
You keep looking for shadows, they get run over by tanks.
Its a magical world you live in.
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You think that you "know what you know"....that it just "lands" in your lap....
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Mc...ism_TPOTM.html
Right-Wing Criticism
excerpted from the book
The Problem of the Media
U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century
by Robert W. McChesney
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._McChesney">Robert W. McChesney</a> is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. He is the President and co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization. McChesney also hosts the “Media Matters” weekly radio program every Sunday afternoon on WILL-AM radio; it is the top-rated program in its time slot in the Champaign-Urbana area.
McChesney has written or edited sixteen books. McChesney has also written some 150 journal articles and book chapters and another 200 newspaper pieces, magazine articles and book reviews. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. Since launching his academic career in the late 1980s, McChesney has made some 500 conference presentations and visiting guest lectures as well as more than 600 radio and television appearances. He has been the subject of more than 70 published profiles and interviews. In 2001 Adbusters Magazine named him one of the “Nine Pioneers of Mental Environmentalism.” In his spare time, McChesney writes on professional basketball for a number of websites.
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Monthly Review Press, 2004, paper
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The U.S. news media ... pays little direct attention to the political Left. The Left-not only genuine radicals but also mild social democrats by international standards-lies outside the spectrum of legitimate debate. What attention the Left actually gets tends to be unsympathetic, if not explicitly negative. Foreign journalists marvel at how U.S. left-wing social critics like Noam Chomsky, who are prominent and respected public figures abroad, are virtually invisible in the U.S. news media.
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[Bernard] Goldberg notes: "Edward R. Murrow's 'Harvest of Shame,' the great CBS News documentary about poor migrant families traveling America, trying to survive by picking fruits and vegetables, would never be done today. Too many poor people. Not our audience.
We want the people who buy cars and computers. Poor migrants won't bring our kind of Americans-the ones with money to spend-into the tent.
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Russell Baker, legendary columnist for the New York Times, put the matter well in December 2003: "Today's topdrawer Washington news people are part of a highly educated, upper middle class elite; they belong to the culture for which the American system works extremely well. Which is to say, they are, in the pure sense of the word, extremely conservative.
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In 2001, the International Labor Organization confirmed ... distressing long-term trend: workers in the United States were working more hours than they had for generations, and more than workers in any other industrialized nation, save the Czech Republic and South Korea. German workers, to give some sense of comparison, work on average 500 hours less per year-some three months' worth of 40-hour weeks!-than their American counterparts. All of this IS hardly conducive to civic participation.
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In the election cycle ending in 2002, <h3>a mere one-tenth of one percent of Americans provided 83 percent of all itemized campaign contributions, and the vast majority of these individuals came from the very wealthiest sliver of Americans.</h3>
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In this "wealth" primary ...96 percent of Americans ... never give a campaign contribution ...
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In the 1950s, corporations paid 25 percent of federal tax dollars; by 2001 the figure was down to 7 percent. Similarly, the marginal tax rate on the wealthiest Americans
has fallen from 91 percent in the Eisenhower years to 38 percent by 2002.....
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http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=98209
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Originally Posted by ustwo
<h2>I Trust The Rich</h2>....I can feel the responses right now. The rich just makes rules to make them richer, they can't be trusted, etc. Its true the rich like rules/laws that makes them richer, but it seems more laws are made to just punish the rich, voted by the masses of folks who can't figure out why its bad to put 9k on a credit card at 18.5% interest....
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...your sympathies are misplaced, Ustwo.....
Last edited by host; 10-29-2007 at 11:32 AM..
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