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From: "Common Courage Political Literacy Course"
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Subject: Free press?
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�Following the same course that virtually every other major industry has
in the last two decades, a relentless series of mergers and corporate
takeovers has consolidated control of the media into the hands of a few
corporate behemoths. The result has been that an increasingly
authoritarian agenda has been sold to the American people by a massive,
multi-tentacled media machine that has become, for all intents and
purposes, a propaganda organ of the state.�
--Dave McGowan, from the introduction to �Derailing Democracy�
�The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the
major media.�
--Former CIA Director William Colby
"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and
real freedom of discussion as in America."
--Alexis de Tocqueville (1805�1859)
(This material was compiled in David McGowan�s, �Derailing Democracy,� now
available from Common Courage Press at
http://www.commoncouragepress.com/mcgowan_derailing.html)
Greetings,
We�re back! As we explained in last week�s email, we have so many irons in
the fire that Greg just can�t keep serving up the rich and thick content
he was creating in the fall. And that�s good news�great things are in
store for CCP�s future. So, for the Spring we�ll be dishing out an a la
carte offering of facts, quotes and other juicy tidbits to further our
mission of countering the corporate spin with some true political literacy.
Most of the material we use will be from David McGowan�s new book,
�Derailing Democracy� (www.commoncouragepress.com/mcgowan_derailing.html).
David has put together a mind-altering compilation of just the sort of
stuff They don�t want you to know about.
You can also expect a smattering of other stuff: cartoons, guest
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