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<DIV>In a message dated 11/26/2004 8:00:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, shovland@mindspring.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>This looks like a very useful site. But there's a conundrum. The Center For Media and Democracy is a special interest group with a prejudged and premeditated point of view. It's also a public relations machine. A successful one.</DIV>
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<DIV>I've met with its head. He does not want to hear what Michael Lockhart identified as hypotheses. He was among those who did not want to hear about black-on-black genocide in the 1980s, when I tried to get him to focus on it. That genocide escalated in the 1990s. It was the Hutu-Tutsi conflict.</DIV>
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<DIV>The Center for Media & Democracy and its allies ruled out any of the coverage that could have stopped the Hutu-Tutsi conflict in its early stages and could have saved close to a million lives. The Center has very strong allies in the media and those allies also insisted that giving attention to the Hutus and Tutsis was politically unacceptable.</DIV>
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<DIV>The folks at The Center for Media and Democracy want only to hear voices that agree with their point of view--the "progressive" point of view, a set of social cliches policed by ostracism.</DIV>
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<DIV>Granted that we all want to hear our point of view or what supports it, once we get away from corporations and government agencies--whose media manipulations should be made as transparent as possible--shouldn't we also have watchdogs watching those who claim to be watchers? Howard</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">----------<BR>Howard Bloom<BR>Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century<BR>Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University; Core Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute<BR>www.howardbloom.net<BR>www.bigbangtango.net<BR>Founder: International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member: Epic of Evolution Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project; founder: The Big Bang Tango Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society, Academy of Political Science, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, International Society for Human Ethology; advisory board member: Youthactivism.org; executive editor -- New Paradigm book series.<BR>For information on The International Paleopsychology Project, see: www.paleopsych.org<BR>for two chapters from <BR>The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, see www.howardbloom.net/lucifer<BR>For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, see www.howardbloom.net<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>