News Censorship Confirmed. First Amendment doesn't apply.

of course.

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ARE YOU KIDDING. Whos running the show behind that curtain. You guys are really pushing the boundaries. Temporarily hidden? You might as well just say
where waiting for you to forget about it so that it will never be seen!!!

"This comment is under review, so it has been temporarily hidden. "
ARE YOU KIDDING. Whos running the show behind that curtain. You guys are really pushing the boundaries. Temporarily hidden? You might as well just say
where waiting for you to forget about it so that it will never be seen!!!

It's kind of a catch 22 because not all news can get published. So an editor has to pick and choose. But some will see that as censorship. Afterall, it is their newspaper/tv station/website etc.

It would be different if the feds started removing stories.

"This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference." -- Edward R. Murrow, 1958

It is unfortunate that if we depend on the news organizations for information we will be uninformed. The alphabet agencies, (MSN, CBS, ABC, NBC) are so invested in overthrowing this country and turning it to fascism that they are nothig but mouthpieces for the government. Sorta like Pravda was. This is also why print media such as the New York Times are experiencing loss in advertising revenue and decreased readership.
Use alternative sources. If we depend on the Katie Courics and the Dan Rathers we will remain ignorant.

BTW...

WHO OWNS THE MEDIA SHERLOCK :)

Why would the military-industrial complex acquire TV media ?
To promote peace & understanding among fellow men!!!!

Rule 1 of investigative work : Follow the money ;)

WHO OWNS WHAT ...
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/owners.htmlhttp://www.takebackthemedia.com/owner....

Who owns CNN? or MSNBC? ABC?
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/47530.php

MORE...
http://www.freepress.net/resources/ownership
http://www.cjr.org/resources/

END RESULT

TOP 25 CENSORED STORIES FOR 2009
http://current.com/items/89327026_top_25_censored_stories_for_2009

“Look who the corporate media is today. The beneficiaries of 9/11 – the biggest beneficiaries have been Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, the Carlyle Group, Boeing, Halliburton, the military industrial contractors, each of those have had 300 to 400 percent increase in their stock value in the last five years, and when we look at those groups and the memberships of their boards, Carlyle has someone sitting on the New York Times board, Bechtel sits on NBC, Boeing sits on ABC, Halliburton sits on ABC, Lockheed Martin sits on Gannett. They’re interconnected.” - Peter Phillips / Project Censored
http://www.projectcensored.org/

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous“ - Carl Sagan

I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little had changed
I am the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you

I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I am the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I am the slime oozin' out
From your TV set

You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't got for help...no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold

That's right, folks..
Don't touch that dial

Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin'room floor

I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go
- Frank Zappa

I would put the bar as low as can we get "Just the facts, ma'am" ?

Just for the fun, can someone ask again, as Michael Moore did with W, to see the tape shot by one of the numerous cameras around the Pentagon that were confiscated on 9-11 ?

Hey, I love a good 757 crash as much as a good caper & would LOOOOVE too see that pesky 9-11 conspiracy be put to pasture once & for all ;)

Let's see how facts, logic & science fares in America…

Meanwhile... Have a ‘magic bullet’ !

"We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle

It's the dark side of the American system. Corporations and big business will always have more power than individuals, and idiots for "small government" will just make it so much worse.

Everyone here has brought up good points. I want to take it a step further and have everyone think about the entertainment business all together, because that is what the news has become apart of. Clearly the news media has been bought off through corporations, and even the best journalists out there cant get they're stories out there with out going through the bureaucracy of the corporate media.. but from the news to the sitcoms, the big-screen, and music festivals; all of the United States of America is being entertained while all the world goes to hell. It is all a great big distraction. Many people are working hard just to survive, so they wouldn't bother wasting too much time considering what it is they are buying into.. so season after season.. story after story.. show after show.. the general public will not concern themselves with considering the censorship of corporate media.

That is why almost 90% of U.S. citizens still don't know why there is anit-American sentiment, beyond the belief that "they just hate our freedoms". Don't trust me, or anyone else.. you have the internet as a resource for information.. Find out why Arab terrorists would take they're own lives to kill Americans on U.S. territory, and the biggest emphasis should be "why the twin towers?" was it because it is a tourist location? did they know they would kill a lot people? Does it have something to do with them being the "WORLD TRADE CENTERS?" "WORLD BANK?" "MONETARY SYSTEM?" C.I.A. and the resources of other countries?

The War on Terror was sold to the American people just like the first black president. A great moment in history where U.S. citizens could back their country up as much as their MTV values would allow them to..

I voted for Obama, but cause I saw the necessity to have this moment to be had and over with.. So we could get over white men running the show, understanding how we all contributed to The Untied States identity.

The majority does not want to ruffle the feathers if it means risking their convenience, no matter how minuscule. But once enough have lost a life of comfort, then maybe they will stand up to a government that goes to war without their approval, bails out corrupt corporations, and goes as far as corrupting the green initiative.. when the internet makes they're voices heard but still goes unrecognized..

I will not apologize for offending anyone, for if you believe in a Untied States of America being made up of citizens that are free, then you will look into what i have said.. you will ask the right questions.. you will demand proof for the claims i have made.. other wise those that are arrogant of their ignorance will behave as though they know truth because they heard it from others, from the likes of rush limbaugh, glenn back, jon stewart and stephen colbert.. all these resources, no matter how revealing, will only reveal as much as those that pay their salaries allow them to..

Yeah, I am afraid the issues have progressed well beyond these concerns (these are still valid, but massaging the message has been the norm for decades now). The two issues that concern me most now are what I think of as "cross-marketing" and "centralized ownership".

By "cross-marketing" I mean that the corporations that own the major news outlets now own so MANY different media-oriented companies (ad agencies, movie studios, tv production companies, animation companies, music labels, talent agencies, modeling agencies, book and magazine publishing companies,etc, etc) that much of what is deemed "important news" is actually whatever news feeds the other companies in the corporate parent's portfolio. Example: Michael Jackson's death. Yeah, it was news. But when the news company also owns a controlling interest in Jackson's record label and demand shoot through the roof...suddenly it is the news story that will. not. die. And the records keep selling. And the magazines keep selling.

Now the insta-books (ones that were commissioned the week after he died and were written with blazing speed) are coming out. You have no doubt noticed that suddenly box office receipts have become national news. And we are seeing more celebrity news being reported on the nightly news -- it all feeds the same corporate bulldog...

Centralized ownership refers to the relaxation by the FCC under the Bush Administration of limits on the number of television and radio station in a single metropolitan area as well as across the country that can be owned by a single corporate parent. We used to worry that putting too much ownership into one corporation's hands effectively gave that corporation control of the news for the vast majority of the people in that market area.

Personally, I think that concern was and is well-founded. But the major media giants kept up relentless pressure on the Bush Administration and the FCC to relax the rules...so the Republicans rammed it through...big time. So now single corporation can conrol what 60, 70, 80% of the people in a metropolitan market perceive as "the news" because they own ALL of the most popular print, broadcast and radio media outlets in that area. So you get the same story, with the same spin, regardless of your source -- unless you are one of the relatively few people who dig a little deeper on places like the Net or via periodicals outside the major news magazines

The line between information and entertainment is now almost invisible...I am very concerned that the line between entertainment and public policy debate is next...

We all should already know this. Boycott the mainstream media.. let it die.

Don't rely on mainstream media. It has been controlled by the elite for years. For example in 1907, J.P. Morgan used it (spread rumors that certain banks were about to fail) to precipitate a banking crisis that allowed him to "help" his competitors by buying them out and adding to his empire that still exists today.

The internet is an amazing tool that needs to be used to its full potential like it is on Current. More people need to become enlightened and step out of the line of drones that the media turned us into.

Still, I just watched one of the best news show in a while...
Today's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann'
the theme : corporate fascism
what's wrong with that ;)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

Keith, Rachel, Stewart & Colbert...
I'm a happy camper !
but that's just me ;)

Now what about the multitude ?...

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful -Edward R. Murrow

"The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal" - Mark Twain Advice to Youth

Remember right after the 'paid generals to spew propaganda ring debacle'... http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/04/about-those-tv.html

About Those TV Generals...

This is an "effort to dupe the American public with propaganda dressed as independent military analysis."

I would like tonight to call for a removal, an immediate removal, of all US troops from CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, CNN, NBC, all of them. - MICHAEL MOORE

So...

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. There's also a negative side. - Hunter S. Thompson

The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. ~ William Colby, former CIA director

"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.": Howard Zinn, historian and author

There has been a lot of news about news lately. The news about corporations controlling the news however, is not news. Maybe Uncle Walter's passing did stir the conscience of a few talking heads. I find it hard to believe that it will last much longer than it takes for a CEO to write a check. How much are consciences going for now days anyway? And that's the way it is. -30-

"it's all about the he said, she said, they did, they killed... whatever works to keep you watching that channel...

GE is a master of information control. I grew up in Schenectady, N.Y.(GE'S company town just after WWII and until I left for college in the early 60's. GE owned the tv stations, radio stations and a newspaper. Also ever hear of Kurt Vonnegut? - he was a company pr writer.

Try reading a newspaper or even a book perhaps. Look to many sources and then think about what you're hearing.

How does that saying go? "Believe nothing that you hear and half of what you see."

Try watching the BBC once in a while, they usually have a different angle on stories. For instance, during the Georgia-Russian Conflict, the BBC reported that Georgia invaded South Ossetia, but American tv reported that Russia invaded.

Or during the gulf war Iraq claimed to have shot down let's say 8 jets, and we only admitted to two--so they probably shot down five... Just be glad we don't live in North Korea, their news is so censored that they don't know that they have a bad deal...

The news, whether printed or electronic is now and always has been just a vehicle to sell advertising space, I worked for some time at the L.A. Times and learned that lesson quickly. If you read a story in the L.A. Times it will have a more liberal edge to it, read the same story in the orange County register and it leans to the right...reflecting the demographic differences in the two area's. Advertisers are not going to waste their money placing ads in a publication that has a small circulation because it has estranged it's readers. The O.C. folks are quite conservative, so they get the story worded in a way that makes them comfortable and the people in L.A. being more progressive are presented stories in a way that they find agreeable..Advertising dollars are spent and viola! Everyone is happy!

news has not been news for a long time now... it has been propaganda...

the odd bit of real news slips on but not much

news is a business,...so this is business as usual.

well actually the First Amendment
the stops government from interfering
with free speech companys can do what
ever but i'am bumed that Keith
has to soft on Fox news but Keith Olbermenn
said it himself the First Amendment dose not cover
what you say on TV