Charles: >Barkley: > I get my versions from the Washington Post >which reports stuff that is not just from "official >spokespersons." > >Charles: This is not very critical thinking. To buy the >idea that the monopoly media is independent from the >U.S. power structure is to be under U.S. Big Brother mind >control. In other words, your response to the People's >Daily Commentary is in a sarcastic tone, smacking of the old >capitalist propaganda that communism has Big Brother and the U.S. doesn't, >that the U.S. has freedom of the press, and communist >countries don't. This in itself is to be a sucker for >U.S. mindcontrol. The U.S. has freedom of the press, >for them that owns the presses. *It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.* Mark Twain, Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar Yoshie