[Biofuel] Re: the 4th Estate

2005-04-04 Thread Keith Addison
Corporate Influence in the Media by Anup Shah Advertising is the art of arresting the human intelligence just long enough to get money from it. - Chuck Blore, a partner in the advertising firm Chuck Blore Don Ruchman, Inc., quoted by Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, Sixth Edition,

Re: [Biofuel] Re: the 4th Estate

2005-04-03 Thread Scott
- Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] By the way, Joanne asked you this: Hello Scott, Can you provide a link or links for details on: snip while babies in Texas have their breathing tubes ripped from their bodies against their mother's wishes because the

Re: [Biofuel] Re: the 4th Estate

2005-04-03 Thread Joanne Olafson
- Original Message - From: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Re: the 4th Estate - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] By the way, Joanne asked you this: Hello Scott, Can you provide

Re: [Biofuel] Re: the 4th Estate

2005-04-03 Thread Keith Addison
From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] By the way, Joanne asked you this: Hello Scott, Can you provide a link or links for details on: snip while babies in Texas have their breathing tubes ripped from their bodies against their mother's wishes because the hospital can't extract enough

[Biofuel] Re: the 4th Estate

2005-04-02 Thread Scott
- Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] We rely on the 4th Estate (of which I'm a lifelong member) to do that for us, that's their role and essential function, but (though the exceptions are many and honorable) there's no need for me to say how derelict they've

[Biofuel] Re: the 4th Estate

2005-04-02 Thread Keith Addison
Let's put in some of the rest of it, because you've provided a good example of it. Joanne said: Thank you for your interest in my post. I like to find the stories behind societal beliefs like this that have so often been accepted without question. And I replied: It's MOST important to

Re: [Biofuel] Re: the 4th Estate

2005-04-02 Thread Scott
Dan Rather certainly made the same point on British TV when he talked about being necklaced if he reported the truth about the bogus rush to war in Iraq. It was a confession that Americans did not see on the corporate controlled TV stations here in the States.

Re: [Biofuel] Re: the 4th Estate

2005-04-02 Thread Keith Addison
Dan Rather certainly made the same point on British TV when he talked about being necklaced if he reported the truth about the bogus rush to war in Iraq. It was a confession that Americans did not see on the corporate controlled TV stations here in the States.