Reply #18: great thread....thanks for the link.

[Gabi Hayes]

here's an excellent post from your thread..thanks to Gregorian:

''As far as I'm concerned, there is no more important subject. The media is what shapes the public opinion. Gore should have wiped the mat with that pathetic little cheerleader. But I remember gaping at how his successes were suppressed, and Bush's supposed advantages were amplified. Gore is nothing short of brilliant. Listen to him, and you know it. Bush not only cannot tell the truth, he doesn't know the truth. Not to mention he's pure evil. But you'd never know it, reading anything but the New York Times, or some such quality paper.

The media is more than just a megaphone for hire. It's what the innocent people rely on for their truth. It's the fourth estate. That is more than just "the media".

We can impeach Bush, and we still have the people. And uninformed, we are in no better shape than we would be with him in office, since it's the corporations which run the media. And their agenda is profit. Not equality, fairness, health, happiness, infrastructure, culture...

Without an unbiased media, we have nothing. And until we have a media that tells the truth, we will continue going down the road we have been on. And we have been on that road a lot longer than just the Bush administration.

2006 will be no different. The electronic voting machines are still with us. It's a no-story. War will continue, even if it's illegal. Even if it poses a grave threat to the future of Americans, if it goes on much further, unabated.

26 million Americans get their meals from a soup kitchen, yet runaway brides stream across tv screens with split pictures and dizzying banners running in the borders. All corriagraphed and timed to create just the illusion the producers design. It's not news, it's entertainment. At best.

Now what? How? Who can help us? GE? Westinghouse? Halliburton? We the people own those airwaves. WE own them. They are ours, are they not? But weren't they sold for billions of dollars? How do we get back what is already ours? Because we must. If we are to survive as a democracy.''