[ExI] the myth of the US "liberal media"

[BillK]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:
> It's a profound confusion that keeps surfacing on this list, and really
> needs to be put out of its misery. Hard to know how to achieve that, though,
> when as you say it seems that many USians have been so conditioned by the
> likes of Fox and all its predecessors that accurate assessment of political
> variants seems out of reach. And that's dangerous; it leads straight into
> toxic Us v Them brain shutdown.
>
> It was my hope that by reposting the John Pilger article I'd provoke some
> more nuanced discussion of the ways in which exactly this kind of
> foolishness pervades USian perceptions of the media, but hardly anyone
> responded to its substance. (Note that Pilger, a man clearly of the left,
> was originally shut out *without formal bans* because of his *attacks* on
> *Pol Pot* and on US involvement with that disgusting communist regime.)
>
>


I see that Obama has threatened that he might not send out the US
Social Security checks in August if Congress won't agree to let him
print more money.

The US people should ask him who he is running the country for.

It is supposed to be North Korea that starves their population to pay
for the military and the boss class.


BillK