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| "The predators are no longer at the gates. They are well inside . The global media is unfortunately all too honest--honest about its real objectives--ratings and profits. Throughout the world, two mergers sweep the industry. On the business side, there is increasing concentration of ownership and the creation of strategic alliances that take for granted homogenization and sameness, conformity and cloning. A second merger fuses the news business with show business. Entertainment values and packaging take precedence over substance and content." | . | Preventing Mass Distraction in a World of Potential Mass Destruction
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. | "If there's a toxic waste dump on your front lawn you can call Greenpeace or some other environmental organization and get help. If a group of corporations want to dump toxic waste into your brain that is somehow not viewed as a problem. Our problem is the media is all powerful but it is viewed more like a force than a problem..." |
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. | "When an issue is not on television, it doesn't exist as such for most Americans...I am always struck by how the right properly positions media strategy at the top of its strategic plan, while the left thinks about the media as an afterthought, if at all." |
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| "The conference director...assembled all the guest speakers and told us point blank to keep our presentations academic, not political. And to avoid human rights." | . | Selling Human Rights to China
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. | "Missing from most of these meetings are voices to raise the issue of media accountability or to discuss how an increasingly concentrated industry will affect our political culture...In this vaunted 'marketplace of ideas,' the only idea is the marketplace and how to dominate it." |