Hi Alan, Which is one strong reason why we all need to connect with each other, imagine if the Internet did not happen...
marc > > Thanks. Murdoch's Fox network really shapes news here, I think for the > majority of Americans (I believe it's watched more than twice as much as > MSNBC and CNN combined). And it's really unbelievable and frightening, 24 > hours of propaganda a day that's so over the top, twenty years ago it > would have been called anti-semitic (in the larger sense) and racist. Now > it's just -watched,- paralleled by the Rush Limbaugh show, which is the > most popular radio show in the country. - Alan > > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, marc garrett wrote: > >> Hi Alan, >> >> Thanks for reading the post on the community blog, and also for the very >> similar examples you have given and how it has already happened in the >> US. There is quite a movement in the UK against these Cuts by those who >> know the true nature of why they are really being implimented. >> >>> You mention Murdoch; given his destruction here and elsewhere, I >> think he >>> might be the most dangerous man around. >> >> Everything is up for grabs, and Murdoch and peer corporations are taking >> it all. Those who do not care about these very important issues are >> likely to be happy in remaining part of what I call the 'consumer >> class', although I am interested in seeing how the protests in this >> country work out... >> >> Wishing you well. >> >> marc >> >> >>> >>> >>> Tried to leave a message on the blog, but ended up with a missed mussed >>> mess of circuitious passwords. I forwarded this to a number of people; >>> there are crises, plural, with libraries here - Queens County for >> example, >>> which apparently was voted the best library system in the US by the >>> American Library Association, has had to stop buying books altogether >>> because they've run out of money. Arts, libraries, etc. aren't supported >>> in the US for the most part; you either make a lot of money in the >> market, >>> or collapse, or somehow persevere. Libraries are open less and less - >> our >>> local one isn't open on the weekends at all for example, which is a huge >>> loss to the community. In some places, the homeless use them for shelter >>> and bathroom - there aren't many places for them to go - and more >>> traditional users stay away. A lot of libraries ironically are becoming >>> nothing more than computer centers for people who need access and >> have no >>> other way of getting it. That's all to the good, but the books again >>> suffer as a result. And then libraries are just closing, period; in >> Aurora >>> Colorado, for example (where Azure's parents live), a number of branches >>> have shut down. >>> >>> You mention Murdoch; given his destruction here and elsewhere, I >> think he >>> might be the most dangerous man around. >>> >>> - Alan >>> >>> >>> == >>> email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >>> webpage http://www.alansondheim.org >>> music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >>> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qw.txt >>> == >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> > > > == > email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > webpage http://www.alansondheim.org > music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ > current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qw.txt > == > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
