[Green-Activist] How the media suppresses democracy - making acandidate disappear

[frank]

No good blaming the biased press, Sheila.


The Australian voter knows both major parties screw them, but they're too cowardly as a whole to really vote for change.  They'll be all urgent about it when it's way too late, looks like.

frank brown 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sheila N 
  To: PopulationForum at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 11:17 AM
  Subject: [Green-Activist] How the media suppresses democracy - making acandidate disappear


  How to make a candidate disappear.

   

  A chilling film about how the US press suppressed information about a fifth US Democratic candidate during the election that Clinton won.  He was even arrested when he protested at his exclusion from public debate.  

   

  http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/210.html

   

  This kind of thing happens in Australia as well and explains to a large degree the absence of differentiation between the parties and absence of differentiation between State and Federal governments: they are all dancing to the tune of the corporate media. It is unfortunate that the public do not get to elect the owners of the media and that our laws of press ownership favorise this continued domination by corporatised media of our government.

   

   

   


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