shadow7's Comments (22)

“It's not a circus. It's a corporate success. Keep the masses uninformed and you can manipulate their fears and control their views. Circuses are fun and make no attempt to disguise their clowns. Corporate media pretends to inform as strives to entertain and has, in effect, successfully dumbed down a huge segment of the public. That's why the Internet is so vital. An informed electorate is the foundation of any country based on democratic ideals. That is also why our not for profit site continues to gain readership. Thanks all around.from http://tvnewslies.org”

“Yes and yes and yes. So long as those delivering the lies and distortions promise a nation that allows them to attend rallies with loaded firearms and is free of gays and abortion rights, the lemmings will follow. There is not a single GOP policy that would improve the life of any teabagger, and yet the corporate media are able to convince tens of millions of uninformed Americans to vote totally against their own interests. We are a nation divided....not by political ideology, but by information. Those who know not they know not, they are fools, pity them.”

“This is what the NYT did in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. The blood-lust was apparent as they published Judith Miller's lies, fed by Chalabi and his neocon handlers. They did this as the war began and progressed, playing the Bush/Cheney game just as CNN played to the viewing audience. The NYT, as much of the corporate media, thrives on the success of those who profit from war, just as they increase their readership as they play up the fear factor that results in public support for military exploits. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan remain bloodless war games, devoid of the photos of death and destruction and the spilling of blood and guts that define them.

This is not a surprise. The NYT, like the military commanders, have Obama in a no win stranglehold. He has no way out, and he cannot stay. This is what the PNAC boys wanted in the first place. They've all but disappeared into history. The NYT, of course, never exposed them or their bloody role in the Bush years.”

“Correct link to TvnewsLIES - http://tvnewslies.org Sorry.”

“"News" lives. "Journalism" is dead. Glenn Beck's rantings are news. Sara Palin's book is news. An accidental death in small town USA is news. That's the problem

Journalism was a profession ostensibly created to INFORM the public of important events that affect their lives. It is the ONLY profession protected by the Constitution from interference from its practice because it was supposed to protect the people's interests by acting as a watchdog to keep those in power accountable to the citizenry. A democracy is totally dependent on an informed electorate. That has long disappeared from view.

"News" in the US is controlled by its corporate owners. Once the dissemination of information became a for profit activity, journalism suffered a slow and steady death. Notice that every single 'news' program reports the same topics at the same time, no matter what the station is called. Notice that every news source, print or otherwise, excludes the same stories and the same topics. Who's calling the shots. Think about it.

The future of journalism lies with those with the courage to put it all out there. The 'it' being information as factual, supportable reportage. It has to be distinguished from opinion. Commentary is commentary. necessary but distinct. Americans do NOT get news. They get infotainment and a few headlines of momentary interest, slanted by those who seek to influence public opinion, not inform.

That is why we at http://tvnewslies.org work to counter what passes for news.”

“Thank you, Arianna, for breaking the silence. There is a total blackout in the American press of phrases such as 'Palestinian land,' or references to checkpoints and of any other words that accurately describe an illegal and immoral occupation that increases in size and power on a daily basis. I doubt Americans have ever seen a map of the West Bank showing the hundreds of settlements - which are cities, not tiny villages - spread out throughout the entire region, connected by roads patrolled by the IDF. I doubt they hear about the water being diverted from Arab villages to Jewish settlements.

The occupation is not a result of Arab intransigence... it is the result of a national policy that seeks to expand into a 'Greater Israel' and cleanse itself of the Arab population it cannot absorb and sitll call itself a 'democracy.' Big joke, there. Again, there is such ignorance of the facts and the history of the region. So sad to read some of the really baseless comments supporting Israeli policy.”

“Why should Glen Beck be any different from the rest of the LIARS who comprise right wing radio and TV. The continuing refusal to use the word LIE is so symptomatic of liberal cowardice as to be laughabale. The facts were not 'fabricated' - Glen Beck LIED. But then again, why would a lie require a response from anyone when Beck was not fired for expressing the desire to personally kill Michael Moore. He did that on the air, and the tapes are out there. He was very clear about his fantasy to kill a man whose politics he opposed....not a tyrant or a mass murderer such as Bush or Cheney - but a film maker. No one blinked.

Beck's ratings rise with every outrageous lie and with each ugly, racist, evil statement. The man is obviously deranged, and just perfect as a spokesperson for FOX er.. FAUX news.”

“Journalism died a quiet yet ugly death with the installation of the Bush administration. Scroll down on this page to view a video that explains why the mainstream media are America's number 1 enemy.
http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/”

“Will someone explain to me why anyone continues to support Republicans? Read this and send it around.
http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/day_in_the_life_of_joe_middle-.html”

“Jesse Richard, Editor and Founder of the not for profit site: TvNewsLIES.org”

“We seem to designate historical truth to irrelevance, even when we face it. Lest we forget, - please read THE BOMBS OF AUGUST - in Remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/editorial/reggies-commentary/3241-the-bombs-of-august-in-remembrance-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki.html”

“Let's go forward in time to see the difference. The anti war protesters who marched from 2002 - before he invasion of Iraq - to the end of the Bush years - were NEVER covered by the MSM - no matter how many hundreds of thousands of marchers showed up. . Today, every right wing get-together gets full media coverage, great exaggeration of attendance, and non stop punditry. I wrote an article back in 2003 about those of us who were the 'Invisible Protesters." It never changed - and now has come full circle as the media give full respect to the most extreme crackpots on the right.
http://tvnewslies.org/html/readers_write.html#InvisibleProtesters”

“Why is this such surprise? The NYT printed Judith Miller's false reports about Saddam Hussein's WMD's, and proved at the outset of the Bush years that journalism was dead at the Gray Lady. That is why the Internet has overtaken establishment news as a reliable source of accurate information. This, for example, is why not a single story about the lies o 9/11 has ever been touched by the NYT - or any of its corporate sister papers. Just Google '9/11 facts' to see the wealth of information... not theory .... is out there. Again, no big surprise, considering the blind support of Israeli policy by the paper and its editorial staff. Truth is always the victim when journalism dies.”

“Whatever the motive, the facts remain the same. We have a crime, we have evidence of the crime and we have three major confessions to the crime. What we lack is a backbone as a nation to prosecute and convict those responsible. We will pay the price.
Good read on this:

http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/editorial/reggies-commentary/8864-kafka-for-dummies-the-absurd-debate-over-torture.html”

“Jon Stewart, brilliant as he is, also missed a major point. MSNBC is owned by Microsoft.....not by some public service agency. Its financial 'news' nonsense is directly answerable to corporate America, and Kramer, like his network puppets, is paid to promote the message that benefits those who continue to stea, without accountability,l from the public coffers.

There is so little 'news' reported by the msm. A few years back, a study by http://TvNewsLIES.org showed that, in a prime time hour, CNN had less than five minutes of real news. Big surprise. Americans remain the least informed of any major nation, and will continue to do so if we believe for a moment that 'hews' networks offer anything more than coordinated and controlled infotainmnet.”

“When the media are owned by the corporations that profit from the same system that nourishes the bankers, the result is major manipulation by each. The economic meltdown is being debated on the airwaves by media pundits who know absolutely nothing about economics. Big surprise. Tonight, the editor of http://TvNewsLIES.org interviewed Ellen Hodgson Brown, the author of Web of Debt:. Unlike the corporate puppets on the msm, Brown set the record straight on the real crisis with our banking system. The program can be heard in archive at Monksmedia.com. It exposes the reasons we don't hear from
anyone in the infotainment media who will expose the facts behind the failure of predatory capitalism.
We are a controlled society. Live with that, or change it. It's a choice.”

“Why is this a surprise? Matt Drudge has one claim to fame - a story leaked to him about a blue dress during the Clinton days.. Linda Tripp is history, but Drudge still swims in the sewer that brought him fame. This is what he does, just as Rush and Sean and Bill do what they do - spin slime with skill. We had him pegged twice in 2004. He has only sunk lower, since.

http://tvnewslies.org/html/dangerous_drudge.html
http://tvnewslies.org/html/skulldrudgery.html”

“I posted this on an earlier article... but feel it is vital to this topic.
Please read this editorial at http://TvNewsLIES.org, putting McCain to shame for his response to the pathetic woman so afraid that Obama might be Arab.
http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/editorial/reggies-commentary/4898-beware-the-bogey-man-a-new-low-even-for-mccain-and-his-ignorant-supporters.html”

“On Friday, as he rallied his bigoted, small-minded followers in a suburb of Minneapolis, John McCain made a most bizarre attempt to reverse the fear mongering and bigoted tone of his faltering campaign.

As expected, hardly any outrage has been expressed about the ethnic insult that went unanswered....

Important read here:
http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/editorial/reggies-commentary/4898-beware-the-bogey-man-a-new-low-even-for-mccain-and-his-ignorant-supporters.html”

“Uh... psst... we've been saying this for six years at http://TvNewsLIES.org. Why is this a suprise? Corporate America owns the media. Most Americans get their news and views from corporate owned stations. The news that is withheld, distorted and simply false is a daily occurrence on networks that report the same news at the same time every single day. This election is over. McCain/Palin will be whitewashed just as Bush was. America never got the story behind this madman. They will not get the truth now, either. Keep your passports up to date.”

“This is playing into the right wing nonsense that patriotism is defined as waving - or wearing - the flag. That is one of the reasons dissent has all but disappeared in the US. Patriotism is love of country.... and is measured by the courage people have to speak out when their government commits crime after crime in their name.

Good read, titled Yankee Doodle Deadly links to a pdf that is far more meaningful as a means to reclaiming the flag. It surely isn't joining the faux patriots by wearing a lapel pin.

http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/editorial/reggies-commentary/20-regs-thoughts/2507-yankee-doodle-deadly-”

“The role Scotty assumed, quite voluntarily..... was supported and promoted by the White House Press Corps. With the single exception of Helen Thomas, whom the rest of the faux journalists abandoned when she was banished to the rear of the conference room, these wimps were complicit and sold their souls for access to the WH and the same approval from Bush that Scotty relished and needed.

Good read from a source that exposed this years ago: The White House Press Corpse - with an 'e'....
http://tvnewslies.org/html/white_house_press_corpse.html”