* karen kwiatkowski: "The Bushco chorus is as right as rain. The White House Press Corps is indeed angry and betrayed. I mean, they throw nothing but softballs, hold stories of national and legal interest for years on end, back-page the serious issues, and as a group, secretly share the Bush-Cheney lust for war and more bloody war."
* scott: "Unbelievable. A 12 year old boy is being prosecuted on felony charges for carrying a bag of sugar to school for a science project. The state’s excuse:
“The dangers of illegal drugs and controlled substances are clear. … Look-alike drugs and substances can cause that same level of danger because staff and students are not equipped to differentiate between the two.”"
* xymphora: "Not to get too Chomsky-esque, but the control of politics in modern democracies depends on the artful manipulation of popular opinion through a combination of lies and, more importantly, selective reporting. The establishment has found that shunning ideas that don't advance their agenda is much more effective than lies. If you want to do some geopolitics in the Middle East, and some Muslims may die as a result, the effective way to deal with the problem is to constantly show video of Muslim rioters, and constantly discuss Muslim terrorism. Focus on the reaction to the oppression rather than the oppression itself. The lives of the vast, vast majority of peaceful Muslims is never discussed, because it is not 'news'. Without even working particularly hard at it, the mainstream media has managed to be an effective apologist for any and all atrocities committed by the West against Muslims."
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