Monthly Archives: August 2018

Barry’s Blog # 248: False Equivalencies – How Media Gatekeepers Marginalize Alternative Voices, Part Five of Ten

In America the majority erects a formidable barrier around thought. Within its limits, a writer is free but woe to him who dares to go beyond…When you go among your fellows, they will shun you as an impure being, and … Continue reading

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Barry’s Blog # 247: False Equivalencies – How Media Gatekeepers Marginalize Alternative Voices, Part Four of Ten

I don’t say that you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you are sitting. – Noam Chomsky Trumpus’ bellowing about fake news implies … Continue reading

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Barry’s Blog # 246: False Equivalencies – How Media Gatekeepers Marginalize Alternative Voices, Part Three of Ten

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine…whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years.  –  David Rockefeller In the US, as Dorothy Parker once said about … Continue reading

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Barry’s Blog # 245: False Equivalencies – How Media Gatekeepers Marginalize Alternative Voices, Part Two of Ten

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the U.S. public believes is false – William J. Casey, CIA Director under Ronald Reagan If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. – Noam … Continue reading

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Barry’s Blog # 244: False Equivalencies – How Media Gatekeepers Marginalize Alternative Voices, Part One of Ten

Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for ‘objectivity’. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are themselves dismissed as ideological. – Michael Parenti There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos – Jim … Continue reading

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