The Government’s War on the Press

[Octafish]

18. Agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Pitt. That is a separate issue, from my POV.

Corporate media consolidation and government censorship, as we have seen, are intimately intertwined. Take Colin Powell's wonderkid, Michael. He headed the FCC beginning in January 2001, when Bush the Younger Warcriminal took the Oval Office. Looking back, I'd say his resume looked about the best out of that crooked bunch. Didn't matter. He looked the other way as Corporate McPravda lied America into war.

What we have with Mr. Holder's assistant's investigation into AP sources and methods aren't just about who tells who what to do or when. It's about a system that's in place where Uncle Sam knows every single communication one makes and to whom everyone is speaking. The government can record what everyone discusses and link all the citizenry into social networks and document the contacts. They also know how you feel about them, based on content analysis of communications. And anyone who talks about anything the government doesn't like, including one's opinion on government spying, can now be declared an enemy of the state.

DU tried to warn people about it when the USA PATRIOT Act was new, but Corporate McPravda was spearheading whatever war Rumsfeld and Cheney were planning. As Will Pitt made clear, the mainstream media were no where around when the citizens tries telling the truth about the liars and their run up to war. The Big Picture for me: When we can't mention out loud the corruption, this is no longer a democracy.