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Laelth

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Mon Dec-20-04 06:29 PM
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5. The news shouldn't report the happy things.

As Bill Moyers said in his closing remarks on his last NOW episode:

"The news is what powerful people want to keep hidden."

Propaganda shows you what the powerful people want you to see (happy Iraq). Real news shows you what the powerful people don't want you to see (sad, destroyed, mangled Iraq). The media has a duty to show us the latter.

-Laelth

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