Wow!! Talk About GovtMedia: =========================================================== The Washington Post, 1/14/2000, page A1 =========================================================== White House Cut Anti-Drug Deal With TV The White House, in quiet collaboration with the six major broadcast television networks, has reviewed the scripts of such popular shows as "ER," "Chicago Hope" and "Beverly Hills, 90210" and made suggestions on at least two dozen programs to help them convey an aggressively anti-drug message. In exchange for their cooperation, a White House official confirmed yesterday, the networks were freed from obligations to provide $22 million in public-service advertising over the past two years, allowing them to sell the lucrative time to corporate advertisers. Alan Levitt, who runs the program in the White House drug czar's office, said his office reviews television scripts "to see if they're on strategy or not" by portraying youth drug use in a negative light. If so, the networks are given credits that enable them to sell more air time to commercial advertisers rather than donating it for anti-drug and other messages. Full Washington Post Report: =============================================================== http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43844-2000Jan13.html =============================================================== IAN: It's a good example of how control is gained by federal regulations, in this case regulation requiring that networks provide public-service advertising. When the federal government regulates a given system, it will gain control of that system. At the same time the government becomes hysterical about kids using illicit drugs (which are often safer than prescription drugs) and will eliminate any human right to prevent such use, the government also tries to get children on psychiatric drugs (http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/New/html/19990607.html), which include amphetamine-class drugs that are linked to brain damage (http://users.erols.com/igoddard/brain.htm). Freedom is being systemically eliminated to fight a War on Drugs, the primary pretext for which is to keep kids off drugs, and yet the same folks who claim to care about keeping kids off drugs are eager to put them on equally or more harmful mind-altering drugs. It therefore follows that the pretext for the Drug War is a hoax. ------------------------------------------------------------ GODDARD'S JOURNAL: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/journal.htm ____________________________________________________________
