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Monday, September 20, 2004

Censorship, Media The Lynching of Dan Rather
(GregPalast.com)
Journalist Greg Palast: "This is not a story about Dan Rather. The white millionaire celebrity can defend himself without my help. This is really a story about fear, the fear that stops other reporters in the US from following the evidence about this Administration to where it leads. American news guys and news gals, practicing their smiles, adjusting their hairspray levels, bleaching their teeth and performing all the other activities that are at the heart of US TV journalism, will look to the treatment of Dan Rather and say, 'Not me, babe.'"

(U.S. mainstream media is all about the propaganda. But we have no one to blame but ourselves. Think about it: in this country it's not acceptable to openly discuss politics. So if you don't even talk about it with your friends, neighbors and colleagues, why T.F. should we expect our media to ask tough questions? We don't want the answers, because they're probably too complicated for our charge-now-pay-later minds to handle. )

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