Making the Media Work for the People –  What the American Founders Said

“The importance of this [press freedom] consists, besides the advancement of truth, science, morality and arts in general, in its diffusion of liberal sentiments on the administration of government, its ready communication of thoughts between subjects, and its consequential promotion of union among them, whereby oppressive officials are shamed or intimidated into more honorable and just modes of conducting affairs” :  The Framers of the U.S. Constitution

John F. Kennedy Toward the Oneness of the Human Race

Victims of Creeping Fascism

by Charles Sullivan
 

"In a time when our tax dollars go to huge public relations groups to place bogus stories favorable to U.S. empire in foreign newspapers and television, we will soon find ourselves with virtually no civil rights. The corporate media in America is such a purveyor of propaganda it is for all practical intents and purposes a State owned media. As such it acts as a mouthpiece for the Pentagon and for Corporate America. Long ago it abrogated its responsibility to serve the interests of democracy and the working people."

Article here:

http://www.planetization.org/creepingfascism.htm

The Tangled Webs

My Beef with Big Media
by Ted Turner
 

"Unless we have a climate that will allow more independent media companies to survive, a dangerously high percentage of what we see—and what we don't see—will be shaped by the profit motives and political interests of large, publicly traded conglomerates. The economy will suffer, and so will the quality of our public life. Let me be clear: As a business proposition, consolidation makes sense. The moguls behind the mergers are acting in their corporate interests and playing by the rules. We just shouldn't have those rules. They make sense for a corporation. But for a society, it's like over-fishing the oceans. When the independent businesses are gone, where will the new ideas come from? We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces."

Article here:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0407.turner.html
 

"Corpo Gov and Corpo Media" :  The Vile and Vacuous Devolved Form of American Media

http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=507
 

"The American Press Failed the Constitution" –  Seymour Hersh

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18905.htm
 

“The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”  CIA Director William Colby
 

http://www.mujca.com/motherjones.htm

Bringing Down the House of Lies  – The Final "Leg" of the Journey
by Steve Bhaerman

"Their brand of free speech is what Caroline Casey calls a "toxic mimic" of the real thing. The freedom of speech and freedom of press the American revolutionaries risked life and fortune for wasn't so our "commonest" of commentators could sling invectives like "faggots" and "nappy-headed ho's" but to empower citizens by letting them know what's going on. In this regard, the record of our so-called "free press" is dismal, if not traitorous. Try initiating a real conversation about the unanswered questions and unquestioned answers regarding 9/11. There you will find a stone wall of silence, or loud screaming to drown out the truth. While up until now, very few have wanted to "go there," more and more people are awakening to the tragic truth that "there" has already come "here."

"Every indication is that there are individuals at all levels of government and influence who are waiting only for a critical mass of Americans to be able to "hold" the true story. Once there is a "listening" for the truth, the truth will out. We encourage the truth through our own courage, and by speaking about politics outside the box as matter-of-factly as the media speaks about politics inside the box."

Article here:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17557.htm

The Lobby that is an Affront to American Freedom

"The result is that Members of Congress today loudly reward Israel as it violates international law and peace agreements, lures America into costly wars, and subjects millions of Palestinians under its rule to apartheid-like conditions because they are not Jewish."
 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18567.htm
 

In years past, conservatives were often shouted down on university campuses by left-wing students. But today speakers disapproved by powerful interest groups are simply disinvited in advance. Even Harvard University has fallen to the new censorship. On September 14, 2007, the Harvard Crimson reported that the Israel Lobby was able to force Harvard University to disinvite three speakers, an Oxford University professor, a DePaul professor, and a Rutgers professor, because they had criticized Israeli policy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18409.htm

Zionists Using Holocaust to Silence People: Chief Rabbi

"I think it is the best thing and you should be proud that the Zionist media, inside the United States, are against you. The more they are trying to attack you, the more is because you are at a better position. Do not be afraid of people who speak openly of attacks, you should rather be afraid of those who speak nice to you. No one in the world had expected the Islamic Republic to make such achievements. The Iranian people are far too clever to fall into such propaganda, and I think they are clever enough to realize that this propaganda is the exact reason to stand firmly, and they do not expect to receive cheers from the evil. ...

"All the media is silent about all the crimes committed by the Zionist regime by using the Holocaust concept."

http://www.planetization.org/purgezionism.htm


Iranian University Chancellors Ask Bollinger 10 Questions

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Seven chancellors and presidents of Iranian universities and research centers, in a letter addressed to their counterpart in the US Colombia University, denounced Lee Bollinger's insulting words against the Iranian nation and president and invited him to provide responses for 10 questions of the Iranian academicians and intellectuals.

http://farsnews.com/english/newstext.php?nn=8606300370

"Mr Bollinger’s hostility towards President Ahmadinejad had obviously been fed by devious translations and interpretations of his earlier—also world-famous—remarks about Israel and the Holocaust. As if, as one commentator has remarked, the professor had been watching only CNN and Fox News."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18471.htm

Unravelling the Three-Headed Monster of  Zionism-Israel-Neocon for the Advancement of Press Freedom, and the Birthright of All Men's Freedom and Independence

http://www.planetization.org/threeheadedmonster.htm