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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 333
Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they
ought to have.
Richard Salant, former president of CBS news.
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Truth and news are not the same thing.
Katharine Graham, The Washington Post.
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We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general
public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when
the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press
can decide whether to print what it knows.
Katharine Graham, The Washington Post.
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We are going to impose OUR AGENDA on the coverage by dealing with
issues and subjects that WE choose to deal with.
Richard M. Cohan, Senior Producer of CBS political news.
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In the July/August 2004 issue of The Washington Monthly, media mogul Ted Turner
expressed his concerns about media consolidation. He said that the decisions of large
corporations often “run counter to local interests and community values.” He further stated:
Today, the only way for media companies to survive is to own everything
up and down the media chain--from broadcast and cable networks to the sitcoms,
movies, and news broadcasts you see on those stations; to the production studios
that make them; to the cable, satellite, and broadcast systems that bring the
programs to your television set; to the Web sites you visit to read about those
programs; to the way you log on to the Internet to view those pages. Big media
today wants to own the faucet, pipeline, water, and the reservoir. The rain clouds
come next….
When media companies dominate their markets, it undercuts our
democracy. Justice Hugo Black, in a landmark media-ownership case in 1945,
wrote: “The First Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible
dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to
the welfare of the public.”…
No one should underestimate the danger. Big media companies want to
eliminate all ownership limits. With the removal of these limits, immense media
power will pass into the hands of a very few corporations and individuals.
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The above admission from Ted Turner is strange since he himself is an insider working to
promote the agenda of the NWO. Although the major media outlets are largely controlled there
are other media outlets such as smaller independent newspapers, magazines and newsletters;
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