"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Bloggers, Surveillance and Obama’s Orwellian State
“The government really needs to get its message out to the American people, and it knows that the best way to do that is by using the American news media,” said Pentagon correspondent for the New York Times Thom Shanker. “The relationship between the government and the media is like a marriage; it is a dysfunctional marriage to be sure, but we stay together for the kids.” And, that is why they – the government and the mainstream media – hate the alternative media, because the alternative media tells “the kids” things the government and the mainstream media have decided “the kids” don't need to know.
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