The Western Corporate Media Cannot Be Trusted.

[sabrina 1]

200. I think it is to be expected that all state sponsored media will be biased. That doesn't mean

we should not read all of it and then try to find the facts somewhere amid all the hype.

What I am seeing here is an attempt to 'shame' DUers for choosing to take advantage of all the sources available to them, which is what happened, coming from the Right which can be expected, during the Bush era regarding any media that wasn't publishing the scripted propaganda they had so carefully prepared.

I abhor censorship, more than bias which we are more than capable of discerning. I will read and watch and continue to state what I watch and read as, to my knowledge, there is no law yet in this country forbidding people from doing so, no matter what tactics are used to try to intimidate people.

In a healthy democracy people are free, without harrassment, to read and then intelligently discuss what they read. I am detecting the same kind of tactics that are so familiar to those of us who spoke out during the Iraq debacle, right here on DU and that is shameful. I can handle it as it is like deja vu all over again, but some DUers feel they can no longer admit to what they are watching or reading. Never though back in those days, I would see that here.

Thanks for your comment, I trust most DUers to have the intelligence to read and watch all forms of media and then form their own intelligent conclusions. Those hoping to prevent that, are afraid of what those conclusions might be. If they are on the right side of the issues, they should NOT have that fear. So that alone is creating distrust.