Topic: by Lenny
A Corporation is a Virus.
TV news is a business and, like most business it's number one concern is it's own perpetuation. A Corporation is a Virus.
Blame the Middle Class.
Myself, I blame the Middle Class. The guys with the money are few and there is no doubt in my mind that we could take 'em, if we really wanted to. The poor are victims of violence and are kept down mostly by a Middle Class that thinks that one day, if they try hard enough, they will be very rich.
The Media Is The Muddle
With the Major Media existing as one arm of an obnoxious profit-making structure we naturally get distortions -- muddles -- that are dictated not by a supposed "objectivity" but blinkered "special interests" that are all the more insiduous because they are denied by those that are supposed to report the news.
Suggested reading includes: Jamie Whyte's Bad Thinking, Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky, and Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising.
A Country Divided
1. How do the election numbers really add up? Sick of that stupid graphic with a big red swath down the middle of the country?
(click here and here to see how things really added up.)
2. Michael Moore: The Kid's Are Alright: "If there was one group who really came through on Tuesday, it was the young people of America. Their turnout was historic and record-setting. And few in the media are willing to report this fact."
3. Over two thirds of the country didn't vote for Bush... they either wanted him out of office or were sharp enough to realize that politics is beneath them:
CANDIDATE / VOTES / percentage
Bush / 59,459,765 / 32.122%
Kerry / 55,949,407 / 30.225%
Nobody / 69,696,269 / 37.652%
(sources: CNN.com,
4. Who really won the election, anyways?
Vote fraud evidence: here.
More vote fraud evidence: here.
5. Don't mourn, organize!
Says David Grenier: "It's time too ask yourself why you wanted to see Kerry win. Was it an end in itself, or merely a means to an end? Did you want to see Kerry win just because you like him as a person, or because you want better health care, better jobs, or an end to the war in Iraq ... If it's the latter, then you need to simply keep fighting." (more here.)
Posted by mediafaction
at 12:01 AM EST
Updated: Monday, 29 November 2004 10:09 AM EST
