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chrisclub Donating Member (73 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 09:26 PM
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Where is PBS?!
Why hasn't PBS done a documentary on the Ohio election fraud and the exit polls showing Kerry won?
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imenja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 09:29 PM
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1. they are too busy with fund raising specials
The Wrinkle Cure, How to live Forever, How to be Rich, and Perry Como. Gosh. What do you expect from them? Get your priorities straight.
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:24 PM
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9. Yeah ... lulling the Baby Boomers into submission with such stirring
specials as the real story of the Mamas and the Papas, The Music of My Life -- The Folksong Years, John Denver Sings and other snoozefests. I love folksongs and old John Denver records as much as the next Boomer, but gimme a BREAK! I need some TRUTH on my TV.
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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 09:29 PM
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2. Same answer
You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit.
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Gyre Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 09:31 PM
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3. They are yellow?
Maybe nobody thinks it's newsworthy. It's only about the theft of a national election.

Gyre
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European Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 09:43 PM
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4. There was a problem in Ohio?
Kerry's lawyer said Bush won fair and square. That's good enough for the M$M.
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Digit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 09:56 PM
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5. Didn't I see the Carlysle Group as one of their supporters?
Did you think this was the PBS of days gone by?
Not anymore.
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MakeItSo Donating Member (351 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 10:06 PM
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6. They are too busy producing TV for kids
They call it "the best television for kids on television."

That's like Phillip Morris creating "the best cigarette for children."

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garybeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:16 AM
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7. wake up, read this, welcome to reality.
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MadSal Donating Member (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 09:11 AM
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8. See this to know what has happened to NPR and Public TV--
Amy Goodman with Democracy Now! did a story on it last week. Here is the thread:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/17/1442219

Our media is being gutted pretty much along the lines of Hitler's model 70 years ago--it is being done SLOWLY so a lot of people don't notice the difference. I know a lot of people, especially older people who don't have a clue everything has changed with the media, including NPR. They are skeptical of Internet news (they must see articles in print from a 'reliable' source like the New York Times to believe it).

An excellent news resource now that even NPR isn't reliable is Democracy Now! which is an award winning program and is even covered on TV in many cities. Check their website for broadcast info or download it on your computer. I also like Pacifica News and they also carry Democracy Now!
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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:35 PM
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10. I get 2 satellite channels with Democracy Now!
Link TV and FSTV both carry it (on Dish Network).
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garybeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:51 PM
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11. holy crap it really is that bad
I just watched that Democracy Now broadcast. this is really bad.

did you see that music video in the middle of the broadcast called "television - drug of a nation"? pretty powerful!

I wish DN was on regular cable. I don't have satellite. thank God we have the internet. But from the story they said they expect regulations to hit even the internet. yikes.

g
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flyarm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 01:49 PM
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12. WHEN no one was looking..1 year ago christmas time
when congress was on hiatus ..bush named a new head of pbs and npr and they are both highly ..highly conservative!!

seems ole * y...knew the only truth and the only people who knew the truth prior to the war watched pbs and listened to npr..so he went about changing that scenerio!!
yes no one was watching or noticing!!

fly
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m.standridge Donating Member (269 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 03:07 PM
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13. It's true--and spooky--that the Internet is almost all we've got
DemocracyNow! and Pacifica are about all else, maybe the NYT, sometimes.
The only other thing, is the ongoing CNN coverage, since, as a constant ongoing thing, something might occasionally "leak" out.
The corporations can really throw their money around in the media. That can be used to produce real pressure on the execs in charge.
On top of that, though, as if that weren't bad enough in itself--how do we get even one branch of the federal gov't back?
Without one branch for the opposition party, democracy could be out the door. And I don't see any real openings for that. The federal appellate court level?
What would be the charge? Obstruction of Justice re: Ohio?
Then we'd have to rely on the Bush Justice Dept to prosecute--how far would that get?
Not enough votes in Congress--and, with rigged voting machines going into the 2006 Congressional elections, how would we retake control?
Spooky.



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