And I do have some good reason to feel so hopeful.
I believe it is well known to anyone with an attentions span of more that 15 minutes, that our commercial media is full of lies. That the media is not doing it's constitutional function of providing important information to the citizenry to maintain a democratic form of government. This is not because the media is only in the business of selling "eyeballs" for advertisers. It goes much deeper than that, as Robert Parry has stated in his article "The Victory of Perception Management":
"To understand how the American people find themselves trapped in today’s Orwellian dystopia of endless warfare against an ever-shifting collection of “evil” enemies, you have to think back to the Vietnam War and the shock to the ruling elite caused by an unprecedented popular uprising against that war.
While on the surface Official Washington pretended that the mass protests didn’t change policy, a panicky reality existed behind the scenes, a recognition that a major investment in domestic propaganda would be needed to ensure that future imperial adventures would have the public’s eager support or at least its confused acquiescence.
This commitment to what the insiders called “perception management” began in earnest with the Reagan administration in the 1980s but it would come to be the accepted practice of all subsequent administrations, including the present one of President Barack Obama.
In that sense, propaganda in pursuit of foreign policy goals would trump the democratic ideal of an informed electorate. The point would be not to honestly inform the American people about events around the world but to manage their perceptions by ramping up fear in some cases and defusing outrage in others – depending on the U.S. government’s needs."
But now we have the antidote to this poisoned stream of information.
Below is a video of a TED Talk given by James Corbett about what the media may look like in the near future. Open Source Journalism, as he explains it in "The Net is Mightier than the Sword":
Below is a video of a TED Talk given by James Corbett about what the media may look like in the near future. Open Source Journalism, as he explains it in "The Net is Mightier than the Sword":
Here is the result of the open source journalism on the MH17 crash on his website The Corbett Report:
As we've been told before "Truth shall set you free". Lets support, promote and encourage this very promising form of information distribution.
May we all have a very Happy, Fruitful and Peaceful 2015!
Pass the word!
Sincerely,
Bob
