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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-05 01:35 PM
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If we had a free press we would have seen something like this weeks ago:

The Media exists for the purposes of the corporate and government elites. These purposes include preventing ordinary
Americans from having any say in their own government. The Media survives as a business only because ordinary
Americans give them their money. We are the base of the pyramid, holding it all up.

We pay them to destroy our country. We are like crack addicts. We pay them for some vapid thrills, and our lives and the
lives of our children are forfeit. Think: 40 million cable subscribers at say $50 a month. 1 million people cutting the
chains of cable times $50 a month times 12 months means a loss of $600 million a year to cable. With 2, 3, 5 million,
we could force the breakup of the cable cartels in a very short time.

Same goes for newspapers, magazines, network shows (through advertisers), PBS, NPR, etc etc. Given the real purpose of
Media--to keep us out--can you think of anything more effective in changing their policies than removing their income, and
telling them we want a media that informs us?


If we had a free press we would have seen something like this weeks ago:
http://home.earthlink.net/imagelib/sitebuilder/misc/show_image.html?linkedwidth=actual&linkpath=&target=tlx_new

http://home.earthlink.net/~byethetimes/
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Last Lemming Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-05 01:38 PM
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1. I think Fox may be feeling
a bit of a pinch already
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unhappycamper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-05 01:45 PM
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2. That's a great NY Times front page. Too bad it's in an alternate universe.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-05 01:59 PM
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3. I canceled and shut those bastards out of my life on 11/2/04
and I really don't think I'm alone. The amazing thing is how little I've missed the nightly propaganda hour or the daily propaganda and advertising sheet.
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-30-05 02:49 PM
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4. I live in the boonies
so I cut back to basic cable.

Starve the beast.

Boycott Wally World an Home Despot too.
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