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- From: biow@cs.umd.edu (Christopher Biow)
- Newsgroups: alt.current-events.somalia,alt.conspiracy
- Subject: Re: WHAT?!?!?!
- Message-ID: <63087@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:28:46 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.182540.5282@sunova.ssc> <1766500007@igc.apc.org>
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- In article <1766500007@igc.apc.org> dmorse@igc.apc.org (Dorothy Morse) writes:
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- >You can't simulataneously maintain that the press is silent about third
- >world disasters because it doen doesn't sell papers and that the
- >press had no political orientation. We are in a real world. If your
- >motive is to make money no matter what yoy do or don't do, you have a
- >political orientation, and you are the willing servant of power.
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- I can, and I do. The press has some (a low level, but some) principles
- other than making money. But to consider the desire to make money a
- political "orientation" is to redefine the words beyond their normal
- usage. Those who don't have enough desire to make money go broke.
- Those who do are left publishing.
-
- Yes, I can get some of the othewise-not-reported news by reading
- _Mother_Jones_ or _Soldier_of_Fortune_. But the level of noise
- and conspiracy theories go up sharply with such sources.
-
- >There's a lot of stuff that would sell papers, by the way, that doesn't
- >make it because it would be harmful to power--more money to be made
- >by keeping quiet about it than by selling news about it.
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- To maintain such a meta-stable condition would require one almighty
- great coordinating agency among those in "power." Even one paper
- breaking with the cartel could profit greatly.
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