Imperial Culture in the Media

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    "It is a primary function of the mass media in the United States to mobilize public support for the special interests that dominate the Government and the private sector."

    -Noam Chomsky, 1988


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    This is a compilation of news and opinion columns containing imperialistic overtones and sometimes explicit advocacy. Noam Chomsky attributes this commissarian-style discipline mostly to indoctrination instilled by the education system. He quotes a report entitled "The Crisis of Democracy" by the Trilateral Commission:

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    Beginning with Venezuela, a particularly instructive example:

     
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    What's called "free trade agreements" have absolutely nothing to do with trade. They are "investor rights agreements."

     
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    The corporate media's infamous political lust for General Suharto, one of the worst mass murderers of the late 20th century, and a longtime favorite of the West. "President Suharto was a reforming autocrat," the New York Times gushed in 1998:

    For more see: http://www.politicalforum.com/entry.php?b=1726

     
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    This is a Business Week Editorial at the time of the the U.S. withdraw from in Indochina in 1975. The editors feared that with the so called "defeat" of the U.S. in Vietnam, "The international economic structure, under which U.S. companies have flourished since the end of World War II, is in jeopardy":

     
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    Adjuncts of the Government

    News Policies in Vietnam: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Eighty-Ninth Congress, Second Session, on Aug. 17, 31, 1966

    "It is very interesting, that so many of our prominent newspapers have become almost agents or adjuncts of the government; that they do not contest or even raise questions about government policy."

    -Senator William Fulbright, 1966

     

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