story on news and propaganda worth listening to

[barbara100 at jps.net]

I listened, Doug.  I didn't know They were doing radio ads.  The PR firm no
doubt.  The voice of the Government sounds creepy. "Do you know a
terrorist?" 'Do you wanna rat on your Muslim neighbors for a million
dollars?'  A "people's movement" They say. Talk about Manufactured
Consent--the million's put up by the State Department.  No wonder Pynchon's
talking about Propaganda in Playboy Japan.  The US Gov't are the creepiest
mother-fuckers alive!  They're Brock Vond with a pistol to your head, on
your knees, instructing you in the art of submission. It's enough to make me
retch.

How 'bout that Tom Ridge signing Mumia Abdul Jamal's death warrant.  Isn't
that interesting? What a small world.

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 4:37 PM
Subject: story on news and propaganda worth listening to


> Worth downloading and listening to the broadcast, containing a good story
> on US media and propaganda in the current pro-War climate,  if you didn't
> hear it on Free Speech Radio News today.
>
> I don't think it's too early to use the word "witch-hunt" to describe the
> efforts the US government is making to coerce or persuade the corporate
> media to help in its program of rounding up so-called terrorist suspects
so
> they can be secretly detained and interrogated.  In my opinion, it's
> shameful the way the corporate media is kowtowing to the Bush
> Administration in this regard -- we need a free press willing to ask
> serious questions and give voice to dissent in war time.
>
> http://www.savepacifica.net/strike/news/20011218_news.html
>
>
> Given Pynchon's remarks in the Playboy Japan interview -- plus what he's
> written in Vineland and elsewhere -- I'd say this is on-topic, too.