As you read your newspaper or watch the news on TV, it is important to keep a few things in mind. Many branches of government use very sophisticated public relations firms to craft their reports to the news media. The role of this P.R. is to provide elegant phraseology to help soothe or excite the American psyche. They work to make a failing situation appear as a victory, to make a legitimate challenge to executive decisions appear as something treasonous, and to assign blame for bad results on the dissenting group or perhaps the media. The idea is to point the finger far away from the actual cause. Sometimes the report is an outright fabrication, designed to simply lessen the impact of unbearable news.
It would be questionable to read news coming from the Pentagon for example and believe these statements to be the final word of importance. We want to believe what we are told by our political leaders, however now you have to dig deeper and look wider for information about the goings on of our government.
There are people calling for more and more censorship of the relatively tiny amount of news available. There is no way for the public to be informed without a semblance of valid news. When the public is completely uninformed, there is no more democracy to exercise.
For Sunday, here is one of my guitar pieces, recorded in 2003, Double
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