Ted Rall for June 27, 2013
June 26, 2013
June 28, 2013
Transcript:
Just because you have the right to free speech doesn't mean you should ever use it. Man: Russia, China and Ecuador don't have a vibrant free press. Why is Edward Snowden going to those countries? Woman: Yeah! He should come here! To America! Where he can be a journalist when he gets out of prison! Man 2: Right! As long as he's not a socialist, libertarian. America-firster, anarchist or environmentalist he's in!
OmqR-IV.0 almost 11 years ago
This ‘toon obviously references an American talk show so it’s going over my head. But I noticed that while those mugs have “Meet the Street” on 2 of them, the third, far right, has “Eat the …” ?“…pies”, …Lies", “Press”?
OmqR-IV.0 almost 11 years ago
Aha! Thanks, Baslim.
Dtroutma almost 11 years ago
My folks sent me an L.A. Times while I was in ‘Nam. (They used it for wrapping a present.) There was an article about an attack in Viet Nam were I lost a number of friends. The “Times” story was the exact OPPOSITE of what happened, but that was when the press was covering up what was happening. Even though LBJ got us into THAT mess, it was indeed the “righties” who were convinced we were “right” in fighting communism (HAR! What a joke THAT was!), and they didn’t want to hear about casualties.
You can go back to William Randolph Hearst, and while there ARE “liberal” reporters and columnists, the control of our media has always on the ownership end, been conservative, to extremely conservative in the vast majority of markets.