“The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.” WorldHouseMediaTelevisionIncludingRadioNewspapersMagazinesAround The WorldOperationsAgencyStationsControlledPublishingWireCiaPublishing HouseMagazine Publishing Author:Michael Parenti
“Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV in the western world uses its freedom continually to show all that is worst in our society, while the centrally controlled television of the Communist world and the dictatorships show only what is judged advantageous to them and suppress everything else, how are the uncommitted to judge between us? How can they fail to misjudge if they view matters only through a distorted mirror?” IfsWorldWellsMatterUseShowsCoursesViewsFailingWorstTelevisionJudgingTvsDutyAspectMirrorsWesternOur SocietyControlledCommunistJudgedDictatorshipWestern WorldUncommitted Author:Margaret Thatcher
“What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?” WorldWholeGovernmentWould BeLandTelevisionHealthyEnlightenedControlled Author:Wendell Berry