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popsdenver

(2,633 posts)
20. Decades ago
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 01:52 PM
Oct 2025

a highly respected journalist from Europe would come and visit us here in the U.S.
He was here for six months investigating U.S. Journalism.
I was saying to him that I was lucky to live where there was no censorship of news.
He almost choked on the coffee he was drinking...........
This was during the Reagan 80's, in the years since he says the US Media has only become worse.
Reagan's Panama invasion had just occurred, and he used it as a prime example. He cut out news articles from several major news outlets here in America about the U.S Military's war actions down in Panama. Then, he gathered articles from many major newspapers in other countries, to show me what the rest of the world saw, and what was presented to us here in the U.S. It was an overwhelming wake up call.
He later sent me a video of another country's documentary on the Invasion, which had won an academy? award.....Most interesting was that the video was BANNED in the U.S. He sent me a copy, but had to go through a lot to get me a copy that was compatible with our video players.
It was appalling to watch the factual video of what we did down there........and especially the numbers of civilian casualties, all to just arrest Noriega? who was installed as dictator down there by the U.S. CIA years prior, and was a major drug trafficker....It seems the Panama Invasion was a distraction to something else that HWBush and his CABAL were doing from the shadows, and wanted to keep out of the news.......
(Sound familiar.??????......Epstein??????)

The journalist also showed me the way highly selected words in U.S. media reporting were being used to represent a totally different picture, as well as photographs being altered......(Think: Photos of Obama, with his facial skin being altered to be much darker, or a poor picture of one candidate and the other candidate with a practically portrait quality picture. or an interview of two people on TV, the Republican a WHITE MALE, and the DEMOCRAT a BLACK FEMALE. or the rhetoric LOADED with dog whistle wording, etc. Or with the Republican making a talking point with a hand gesture (the sign of okay, for instance) which has become a dog whistle hand gesture to flash to the white supremacist audiences viewing.......

Once you know, you will never be able to read or watch anything without recognizing it being done................

Currently the Repubs and Republican Mass owned/operated media are doing anything they can, from the "creating" a military attack on Venezuela, to tearing down the White House to divert attention from Epstein.........

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And The No Kings protests were also held worldwide. tblue37 Oct 2025 #1
The Tea Party Metaphorical Oct 2025 #2
This! tblue37 Oct 2025 #6
You mean, Clear Channel aka iHeart Radio? A radio conglomerate that B.See Oct 2025 #8
Why do you think Bush Jr allowed the select billionaires to take over and add to their portfolios slightlv Oct 2025 #18
And FOX!!!! Grins Oct 2025 #13
What makes you think the 'MSM' Oeditpus Rex Oct 2025 #21
This was the big lesson the GOP learned during Dubya's Iraq war. travelingthrulife Oct 2025 #3
And the Tea Party continued getting corporate media coverage long after it became defunct. sop Oct 2025 #4
Well yeah, the corporate media is nothing more than a ruling class mouthpiece. BlueTsunami2018 Oct 2025 #5
Because our worthless media is run by republican billionaires. Initech Oct 2025 #7
It's almost like the media is part of the problem. progressoid Oct 2025 #9
Almost being a synonym for exactly in this case. hay rick Oct 2025 #15
In Columbus OH in 2009 Sarah Palin in town and about 200 people were there including the press and it got Botany Oct 2025 #10
In Metro Detroit DownriverDem Oct 2025 #11
That's because there was violence and drama during the anti-American Tea Party protests ffr Oct 2025 #12
The name "Tea Party" was copyrighted in October 2008 Grins Oct 2025 #14
When you own the information you can bend it all you want. twodogsbarking Oct 2025 #16
Democracy NOW! Mr.Bee Oct 2025 #17
Quit wasting time and energy expecting someone else (legacy media, or their ilk) to rescue us, or be "fair." jeffreyi Oct 2025 #19
Decades ago popsdenver Oct 2025 #20
Great story and sure illustrates the problem we have had for a long time rurallib Oct 2025 #23
LOL popsdenver Oct 2025 #28
This. tblue37 Oct 2025 #26
And we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that markodochartaigh Oct 2025 #27
One of Hitler's CABAL popsdenver Oct 2025 #29
For me this confirms that the media is a run and owned by right wingers Mr. Sparkle Oct 2025 #22
Interesting Cirsium Oct 2025 #24
This is probably a no-no but No Kings was FAR larger than the 7 million rurallib Oct 2025 #25
***THIS!!!*** US M$M is a big part of the reason we have Putin's Whore as president uponit7771 Oct 2025 #30
What a big fucking surprise. Cha Oct 2025 #31
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