God Bless Rolling Stone. And Kudos to DD1 for the head's up on this article.
This is an excerpt of the interview they did with Olbermann:
"Were you ever censored by MSNBC?
No. What were they going to do about it? It was live. I will say this. Nobody ever said, "If you say this, you're going to be fired."
It's not about "NBC is evil." It's about that media structure—CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings. The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive id and they do whatever they want. In a corporate setting, there's nothing to stop Rupert Murdoch or Disney from doing whatever the hell they want with the news. They could turn it into propaganda for the Chinese government or the socialist party of America, and who's going to stop them?"
This whole article ( see it HERE) is very worth reading. We, as a people, have to start taking back our country from these Vultures. Our fighting forces do NOT need to be fighting any more of these guys' wars of conquest for resources, period. The whole idea of that happening again really sucks, if you ask me.
Knitting report:
The Yukon Leaves socks are chugging along, with sock one up to the gusset, Yay! When I finish it I'll show it off. There's been no other knitting going on because we went to see your daughters and did a lot of very fun stuff. More on that later, too.
This is an excerpt of the interview they did with Olbermann:
"Were you ever censored by MSNBC?
No. What were they going to do about it? It was live. I will say this. Nobody ever said, "If you say this, you're going to be fired."
It's not about "NBC is evil." It's about that media structure—CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings. The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive id and they do whatever they want. In a corporate setting, there's nothing to stop Rupert Murdoch or Disney from doing whatever the hell they want with the news. They could turn it into propaganda for the Chinese government or the socialist party of America, and who's going to stop them?"
This whole article ( see it HERE) is very worth reading. We, as a people, have to start taking back our country from these Vultures. Our fighting forces do NOT need to be fighting any more of these guys' wars of conquest for resources, period. The whole idea of that happening again really sucks, if you ask me.
Knitting report:
The Yukon Leaves socks are chugging along, with sock one up to the gusset, Yay! When I finish it I'll show it off. There's been no other knitting going on because we went to see your daughters and did a lot of very fun stuff. More on that later, too.
Thanks. I put the link up on my blog.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I love your pumpkins.
Absolutely great, and thank for spreading the word!
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks about the "Pumpkinware". Most kind. :-)