We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Mainstream Media: Presstitutes for the Rich and Powerful

Click here to access article from Washington's Blog. 

This piece provides a much deeper analysis of the corruption of mainstream media to serve the needs of the Empire than all the recent reports of the corrupt practices of Rupert Murdoch. As usual this blogger provides an abundance of links dating back over the past 40 years to show how mainstream media has been thoroughly corrupted by the political operatives of the capitalist Empire.
While the Rupert Murdoch scandal is justifiably front-page news, there is a much wider problem with the mainstream media.
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