Today's quotes...02/08/08

[Frenchy]

"The government of the world was [Cecil] Rhodes' simple desire."
-- Sarah Gertrude Millin
(1889-196 South African writer
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Sarah.Millin.Quote.8A9D


"I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what
Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on
Washington; they would not wait for an election... It adds up to a
preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the
United States!"
-- George W. Malone
(1890-1961) U.S. Senator (Nevada)
1957
Source: speaking before Congress
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Malone.Quote.BD0A


"A power has risen up in the government greater than the people
themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests,
combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of
the vast surplus in banks."
-- John C. Calhoun
(1782-1850) American statesman
June 27, 1836
Source: http://www.devvy.com/9612.html
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.C..Calhoun.Quote.2EEA

[AZXD]

"The dream of every leader, whether a tyrannical despot or a benign prophet, is to regulate the behavior of his people."
-- Colin Blakemore ("Mechanics of the Mind")

More than at any time in our history, we depend on the mass media to inform us about what is occurring, about the "news." It is the mass media which decide what *is* the news. "The mass media become the authority at any given moment for what is true and what is false, what is reality and what is fantasy, what is important and what is trivial."
-- Ben H. Bagdikian ("The Media Monopoly")

"The Age of Enlightenment created a new kind of society... It acknowledged that the democratic consent of the governed is meaningless unless the consent is informed consent." Thus *information* was crucial in a democracy. In the United States, the first amendment sought to guarantee a plurality of viewpoints, a plurality of information. "Diversity of expression was assumed to be the natural state of enduring liberty."

But unfortunately, "Modern technology and American economics have quietly created a new kind of central authority over information -- the national and multinational corporation. By the 1980s, the majority of all major American media... were controlled by fifty giant corporations." These powerful information czars can easily drown out attempts by the less powerful to put forth dissenting viewpoints. "The fifty men and women who head these corporations... constitute a new Private Ministry of Information and Culture."

Bagdikian argues that "...while it is not possible for the media to tell the population what to think [at least not overtly, B.R.], they do tell the public what to think about." The permissable range of discussion is defined by the mass media. "What is reported enters the public agenda... [Thus,] More than any other single private source and often more than any governmental source, the fifty dominant media corporations can set the national agenda."
-- Synopsis/Review by Brian Redman ("The Media Monopoly")

[turbosupra1313]

"Brass was made to be empty" me

[monsterdawg725]

if they dont bang they dont hang .