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freshwest

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6. No, and photos of the president should be public domain, and not used by media outlets for profit.
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 05:09 AM
Nov 2013

Last edited Sat Nov 30, 2013, 03:28 PM - Edit history (1)

After all, we are paying for them and always have. Sounds like more privatization to me, and they will use anything to get that money.

Making something look like a scandal when there is none, is a common practice to claim that private interests can do it better or that there is a crisis when there is not one.

This article is a particularly blatant attempt to use the senstibilities of the public regarding civil rights or Constitutional rights when nothing is being violated. One must always think to the profit motive when one reads these stories.

Yes, they will lie, they will smear, they will contort logic to get those contracts. I've seen this pattern repeated in each privatization scam.

And the private sector media does not always do a better job, think how they are constructed and who owns them. They often edit video to cut out the full story of Obama interviews, photos and words. They have been caught doing this so often it's poisoned the thinking processes of Americans.

Obama has bad a good deal of obstruction, and even a news blackout when he has put forth ideas. We are being forced to go to networks what are biased and to private sector media to get any of his speeches or words, and they often try to extract payment for getting transcripts or using the images they get a hold on, denying us the right to see or hear or read the words the President for their profit.

If there is any propaganda going on with it, it's from media, not the White House. They are complicit in every anti-progressive/ liberal game played on us. Think deeper, look to the advantage, not what they say, think twice, thrice. Not on the words, the meaning. Or be screwed again.

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