Bill Moyers addressed a conference on media reform this weekend in St. Louis. During his remarks, he had this to say:
“An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight – ask questions and be skeptical.”
You can read about his speech here, watch it here, or get the transcript here. (via One Good Move)
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you’re too young to remember, but what is happening in this country today mirrors what happened in nazi germany when i was a child. it’s frightening to see people wrap themselves in the flag while shouting hate slogans. i see members of my own family (horrors!)who are too lazy to notice or protest what is going on, and the media are not hellping
dorothy, it’s exactly what we’re afraid of.
“Kenneth Tomlinson has his demanding donors. I
As Hal Crowther pointed out in his article War is the Only Enemy, “A quote I had underlined was from the testimony of Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials, not long before Hitler’s vice-fuehrer poisoned himself in his jail cell:
Goering’s dark wisdom gained weight when a friend called me and reported that Vice President Cheney was so violently partisan in his commencement speech at Westminster College in Missouri — so rabid in his attacks on John Kerry as a anti-American peace-marching crypto-communist — that the college president felt obliged to send the student body an email apologizing for Cheney’s coarseness.”
just to underscore Dorothy’s point.
screw canadian tv. lets get iranian tv.. just check out this gem.
http://memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=538
btw you can see the complete horrific video at
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com
and you thought flushing a Koran was incitement.