NO SHIT ...72

[pbmus]

[ffr]

1. Which is why I get my news from DU. n/t

[MissDeeds]

2. Excellent post

Thanks so much for this, pbmus.

K&R

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Find out about this ONE WEIRD TRICK.... etc

[pbmus]

4. and just whatever airplane disappears forever ...

[MindMover]

5. its called massaging the ignorant mind, whatever works to subdue

and subject

[carolinayellowdog]

6. Huxley was a truer prophet than Orwell

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Who needs Big Brother and reeducation, when people can be "amused" and "entertained" to the point of political impotence?

Links of interest: letter to Orwell from Huxley and Neil Postman on Huxley vs. Orwell (illustrated recently and brilliantly)

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. IF,...and I say IF our media covered what's in the first column,...

....they would feel the need to fill the second column with opposing points of view.

For instance:

-How to grow your own food -The dangers of home grown food (Including bugs getting in your house)

[erronis]

8. Give me a radio/T.V./web channel that only reports real news

such as the left column "What you should know about" and I'll be tuned in full-time.

Right now I have no T.V. and haven't watched one for 3-4 years. Sometimes watch some stupid stuff on streaming video. I enjoy the TED programs mainly.

NPR is OK except they focus way too much on the right column "What the news tells you about". I don't listen to radio other than that.

I subscribe to a pretty decent local paper (Stowe Reporter) and will pick up a random NYT/WSJ. I also like the NewScientist magazine. Most of the rest of the science rags have been inundated with crap advertisements.

The corporations have poisoned the well by trying to "own" everything - the stations/channels, the content, the minds, the tubes. Their like greedy little boys. Perhaps fortunately for them there are lots of robots in living rooms that will suck at their HFCS teats.

[Enthusiast]

9. This is a very relevant post for today.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

10. Sadly, the news is a business. And business produces what sells. And in America, that is

the crap that sells.