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skeptikool
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 Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject: Drugs, Arms, Gambling. Who's watching the watchers? |
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At this time of mostly bland, in the news department, you may wish to keep some of the items in the linked article for later comment.
Excerpt:
Mass Media.
Top Journalists Expose Major Cover-ups in Mass Media.
The riveting excerpts below from the revealing accounts of 20 award-winning journalists in the highly acclaimed book Into the Buzzsaw are essential reading for all who support democracy. These courageous writers were prevented by corporate ownership of the mass media from reporting major news stories. Some were even fired. These journalists have won numerous awards, including several Emmys and a Pulitzer. Help build a brighter future by spreading this news. For a two-page summary of this mass media information, click here.
Jane Akre spent 20 years as a network and local TV reporter for news and mass media operations throughout the country. Recently, she and her husband, investigative reporter Steve Wilson, were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for their struggle with the story told in this chapter.
By February 1997 our story was ready to air. It attempted to answer some troubling questions: Why had Monsanto sued two small dairies to prevent them from labeling their milk as coming from cows not injected with [growth hormone rBGH]? Why had two Canadian health regulators claimed that their jobs were threatened—and then said Monsanto offered them a bribe to give fast-track approval to the drug? Why did Florida supermarkets break their much-publicized promise that milk in the dairy case would not come from hormone-treated cows “until it gained widespread acceptance?" And why was the US the only major industrialized nation to approve this controversial genetically engineered hormone? (p. 211)
http://www.wanttoknow.info/massmedia#levine
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| Quote: | Michael Levine is a 25-year veteran of the DEA turned best-selling author and journalist. His articles and interviews on the drug war have been published in numerous national newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Esquire.
When President Nixon first declared war on drugs in 1971, there were fewer than 500,000 hard-core addicts in the entire nation, most of whom were addicted to heroin. Three decades later, despite the expenditure of $1 trillion in tax dollars, the number of hard-core addicts is shortly expected to exceed five million. Our nation has become the supermarket of the drug world, with a wider variety and bigger supply of drugs at cheaper prices than ever before. The problem now not only affects every town and hamlet on the map, but it is difficult to find a family anywhere that is not somehow affected. (pp. 158, 159)
The Chang Mai factory the CIA prevented me from destroying was the source of massive amounts of heroin being smuggled into the US in the bodies and body bags of GIs killed in Vietnam. (p. 165)
My unit, the Hard Narcotics Smuggling Squad, was charged with investigating all heroin and cocaine smuggling through the Port of New York. My unit became involved in investigating every major smuggling operation known to law enforcement. We could not avoid witnessing the CIA protecting major drug dealers. Not a single important source in Southeast Asia was ever indicted by US law enforcement. This was no accident. Case after case was killed by CIA and State Department intervention and there wasn’t a damned thing we could do about it. CIA-owned airlines like Air America were being used to ferry drugs throughout Southeast Asia, allegedly to support our “allies.” CIA banking operations were used to launder drug money. (pp. 165, 166) |
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Reverend Blair
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Damn, I read the first part of the title and thought Hunter S. had spontaneously reincarnated. 
Sorry Skeptikool, I don't mean to ridicule your thread...this is an important issue. It's just that something's been missing from my reading list lately.
That brings me to something else though. The media situation now is a lot different than it was when Rolling Stone came out and Thompson started writing for them, but the end result is disconcertingly similar. Is there room for something like what happened with journalism in the sixties and seventies to happen again?
The "new journalism" is almost as old as I am, arguably older, yet I'm in far better shape than it despite my nicotine addiction, my bizarrely unscientific theory that caffeine is a vitamin, and my predilection for all things made from beer...including Stonehenge and the pyramids.
Is there a way to bring something similar back? Don't say the internet...that's going backwards as near as I can tell.
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skeptikool
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Reverend Blair:
| Quote: | | Is there a way to bring something similar back? Don't say the internet...that's going backwards as near as I can tell. |
I grieve along with you. We need not abandon the "fun" aspects but, too often, what should be a powerful tool of communication, becomes little more than a cliquish love-in of little relevance.
Indicative of your beliefs has been the response, or lack of, to the numerous issues in the previously, linked item.
We should not be allied, by silence, with those in the MSM that dump those prinipled within it that attempt to bring us the truth.
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http://www.projectcensored.org/ |
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anne cameron
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Lack of response might not indicate disinterest or unconcern but rather the feeling that there's nothing to add.
And, too, after a while you begin to wonder if you're not just a step or two over the line and inventing your own conspiracy theory.
I live on the west coast of Vancouver Island. We kind'a sort'a know that huge amounts of hard core drugs are smuggled in by sea, right? And every coffee shop has heard of bundles dropped from freighters, of locator buttons and of powerful engines on smaller boats or zodiacs which speed out, locate the bundle and then move it to a private dock, load it in a pickup truck and...even heard of landing such contraband at fish farms where the stuff is put in condoms which are packed in the bellies of fish and taken out by truck to the city...stories, stories, stories, some of them possibly even true.
And after a while you just can't help but wonder if there isn't "something" going on when Fisheries only has one inspector for the entire west coast of the Island, and the Coast Guard budget has again been hit by NeoCon budget cuts, and the only road out might have had a road block on it in the past five years but I haven't seen one or heard of one and...and then your wonder widens and you begin to feel there's something fishy going on in the Basi-Virk-Basi thing which seems destined to never get into court in our lifetimes, and...see how a person could wind up feeling just a tad...well....unhinged might be a word...
I mean, I KNOW I'm paranoid. I just wonder if I'm paranoid enough?! |
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