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More than 900,000 names are on America’s terrorist watch list, including at one time Senator Edward Kennedy (now grievously sick). I demand to know: am I on the watch list? If not, why not? Â I should be because I wrote a play called DubyaBaba and the Forty Thieves, the apogee of a wildly successful …
In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called “alarmist” for pointing this out in his book, The Media Monopoly. In his 4th edition, published in 1992, he wrote “in the U.S., fewer than two dozen of these extraordinary creatures own and …
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The current American Administration has handed over the running of the country to the big corporations, has lifted most oversight and has abandoned the old (Republican) policy of preventing monopolies. The huge financial crisis that is currently playing itself out is solely due to maladministration, incompetence, and simply bowing to the convenience and greed of …
“I’ve been thinking some more about CNN hiring Tony Snow as a commentator. Coming in the wake of Newsweek’s hiring of Karl Rove, and the New York Times’ hiring of Bill Kristol, the mainstream media’s embrace of these unabashed propagandists has revealed a self-loathing streak a mile wide. Have they been so cowed by the …
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