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Old 04-06-2013, 12:17 AM
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"Shadows of Liberty" on KCET/PBS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SAUborWbPw
Catchy title, eh?

No, it's not some crappy Tom Clancy novel.
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Old 04-06-2013, 12:27 AM
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http://www.kcet.org/about/pressroom/...led-media.html

http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2013..._film_explores
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Nice Nagra.

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Nice Nagra.

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Thought you would like that. Catch the documentary if you can. It's a damning history of the consolidation/ conglomeration of the media industry and the effect it has on an informed citizenry. It runs about 90 minutes.
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The media is just another facet of the business/government machine.

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Old 04-08-2013, 11:30 PM
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The media is just another facet of the business/government machine.

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Is that a whiff of disapproval I'm catching? Dang, Pete, you're sounding more and more like some wide eyed '60's radical.
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Does this include the rightwing media and its puppetmasters at the Heritage Foundation, et al?

Or is that somehow "different"?

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Oh no, I'd bet 99% is at least machine influenced. That also includes the cherished sources on the left btw

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