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- From Chapter 16 (the Media) in Sexton's _The War on Labor and the Left_:
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- The media get most of their news from "official," "expert,"
- corporate-owned, and other established and generally conservative
- sources -- mainly the public information offices of corporations and
- government these sources are considered respectable and reliable, and
- they also can most easily afford to pour out new to the media, without
- charge or much effort on the media' part.
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- In 1975, a Senate intelligence committee found that the CIA owned
- outright more than 200 wire services, newspapers, magazine, and book
- publishing complexes and subsidized many more..
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- "a study of some 2,500 guest on the ABC "Nightline" news program
- ..showed officials predominating and unofficial and dissenting
- groups virtually absent -- including labor, consumer, and
- environmental advocates; peace activists; the working class; the
- American opposing U.S. foreign policy. "If you want to critique
- U.S. foreign policy," the show's host said, "you don't bring on
- the opponents of U.S. foreign policy and let them speak, their
- mind, " he said displaying his keen understanding of democracy the
- role of the Free Press, "what you do is bring on the architects of
- US foreign policy and hold them to account" (Spoken like a
- _Pravda_ editor) in the sense that the mass media have been
- "holding them to account" year after year...
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- [FAIR study on PBS, biz coverage, not matched by programs about
- groups such as labor unions, available online in labor.resources
- --harelb@igc.org]
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- _The War on Labor and the Left.
- Understanding America's Unique Conservatism_
- By Professor Patricia Cayo Sexton
- Westview Press -- Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford
- ISBN 0-8133-1062-8 ///\\\ ISBN 0-8133-1063-6 (pbk)
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