Slightly OT from your posts but you might be interested in this: http://www.michaelparenti.org/MediaAtrocities.html
Or, on terrorism: http://www.michaelparenti.org/Terrorism.html (Slightly more on topic) Benjamin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 8:49 PM Subject: The US media has given up it's constitutional rights...why? > Does anyone else find it disgusting that at the governments request none > of the major US media outlets never said a word about exactly what Bin > Ladin said in his most recent letter? While watching the news over the > last few days, I had found it strange that while CNN mentioned the Bin > Ladin letter, they only broadcasted the White Houses response to it. > Then tonight while surfing the BBC web site, lo and behold there is the > complete transcript. The right below it a story that either didn't get a > lot of coverage (surprise...) or I totally missed, "US TV limits Bin > Laden coverage". > The first thing that popped into my head is the Benjamin Franklin quote > "They that can give up essential liberty for a little temporary saftey, > deserve neither liberty nor safety.". That's what the media has done > IMO, given up one of their, and by extension the American people's, > essential liberties. > > What good does this to? The government says Bin Ladin might be hiding > secret messages in his letters so the TV stations shouldn't air them. > This is total BS, and they know it. If I can find it on the BBC web > site, so can the terrorists. > > So why do it? > > jon > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
