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Friday, June 9, 2006 |
FAIR: "On June 7, Congressional Republicans launched their latest assault on public broadcasting when a House Appropriations subcommittee voted to cut $115 million from the budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The cuts would affect PBS, NPR and other non-commercial media like Pacifica Radio."
Freedom in the minds of the republicans does not include free speech.
The Harper's article about 'killing the president' I reported about some time ago, is now available on the net: On Simple Human Decency.
USAToday: "The Pentagon is refusing to release data on how many soldiers have suffered brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan. It says disclosing the results would put the lives of those fighting at risk."
But the corporate media as well are responsible for the decline of free speech.
DemocracyNow: "Journalist Eric Boehlert argues in his new book, Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush that the mainstream media essentially gave up its role as defenders of the public interest and instead succumbed to pressure from the Bush White House and the conservative right."
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© Copyright 2006 Hetty Litjens.
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