Man, there is a great segment on Democracy Now about "media serving a dem-

[AP]

ocratic society".

It's must-listen radio.

http://www.democracynow.org/

They're playing a tape of the soundtrack from a documentary on a speech Goodman did on Iraq war media coverage. It's really good.

One thing Goodman says is that, if she could control the media for one week she could change the opinion on the war dramatically, just by telling the truth.

They're playing experpts from her interview of Aaron Brown (in which he was disgusting -- "the truth doesn't matter because it's done, we've invaded").


I'd like to say that, if I could control the media for one month, from the first tuesday in October 2004 to the first tuesday in November 2004, no Republican would win election anywhere in America.

[Flubadubya]

1. Thanks for the post AP...

I will check this out. If only the media would tell the truth for just once.

I'll never forget going to Mexico as an exchange student just after high school. I stayed with a family who spoke some German (I had studied it for a year) but I spoke no Spanish. I learned first-hand what culture shock meant.

Now for the first time since then I am experiencing culture shock in my OWN damned country, I swear that is exactly what it feels like. It's like I don't belong here, that aliens have taken over.

As you say, if the truth could just be told for even a short period of time in this country, perhaps many things would change... hopefully for the better.

[papau]

2. As a political thought - Aaron may be correct - folks always take an

optimistic future view - meaning we went in and did some good - Saddam is gone - whatever bad that was done is in the past -

so "what does the future hold...." will be the population's approach - and given the media bias I doubt we can change that.

It is unlikely that "Bush lied us into a war that was not needed at that time so folks died" will be a major vote changer.

[loudnclear]

3. 'Democray Now' is one of the best radio programs around

so is the Diane Rehm Show.