Common Sense

PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. -Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Common Sense, 1776

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Who shattered the MSM barrier?

As you may know, U.S. MSM (Main Stream Media) "works" for what President Dwight David Eisenhower called "the military-industrial-congressional complex." And seminal linguist Noam Chomsky pretty much nailed the results:
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

So when a high profile celebrity with a top-rated show "speaks truth to power" in MSM, shattering that "ideological control" -- AND the audience applauds, you know a sea change is in the forecast.

Rosie shatters the main-stream-media barrier
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