Bob Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> What I admire most about America is the principle of freedom of speech.
> However with the mass media being mainly controlled by four major
> corporations relying on their profitability from the advertising dollars
of
> other corporations, with journalism being mainly the distribution of
> corporate or government PR material in relation to political or corporate
> matters, there is little publicity given to alternative viewpoints.
Despite
> the World Bank president's doubts about his organisation's
accomplishments,
> the message of the Seattle and subsequent protests received virtually no
> constructive analysis in the mainstream media. Instead, the participants
> were demonised and their views marginalised to such an extent that the NY
> times had to print retractions of it's fictionalised articles. To protect
> the undemocratic not-accountable-to-the-public members of the WTO, the FBI
> infiltrates protest movements and the police rough them up in the streets.
> However, corporations, or non-profit organisations funded by corporations
to
> promote their ideology, have the right of free speech to fund political
> advertising (i.e. propaganda) campaigns. Would Napoleon the pig approve?
For that other side of the news, and debunking of many publicity campaigns,
I would recommend that you visit Adbusters. They are a publication, but
most
of the stuff is available or free on their web site http://adbusters.org
I really apprecite the way they take corporation's ads and turn them round
to
denounce what is being advertised.
Jean-Louis Couturier
