Some Simple Proof. . .

Of The Breakdown Of Our Constitutional Democracy
by American High School Students via USA Today, Jan. 30, 2005

U.S. Students Say Press Freedoms Go Too Far

"The survey of 112,003 students finds that 36% believe newspapers should get "government approval" of stories before publishing; 51% say they should be able to publish freely;. . ."

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Cash & Carry
by Bill Berkowitz, MediaTransparency.org, Feb. 11, 2005

Bush, Blacks and the Faith-Based Initiative

"By using faith-based money to court African American churches, is Team Bush laying the groundwork for a political realignment?"

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News About Iraq Goes Through Filters
by Dahr Jamail, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Feb. 11, 2005

In a guest column for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Dahr Jamail discusses the filtering of news from Iraq, stating that "mainstream media reportage ... is being censured, distorted, threatened
by the military and controlled by corporations that own the outlets."

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Negroponte Appointed Nation's 1st New National Intelligence Director
It takes balls to appoint such a criminal to such a post

Updated Link: Of Research by "Billmon"

Three links on this appointee by Bush. . .
Congressional Record: September 14, 2001 (Senate)
Derechos
Negroponte: Human rights free zone

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Statement of Democracy 21 President
by Amanda Lewis, Progressive Newswire, Feb. 16, 2005

...on Ethics Committee Staff Firings and Continuing Wholesale Purge of Ethics Committee by House Republican Leaders. . .

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Censorship of the Media
by US Rep. Bernie Sanders, Feb. 16, 2005

...Creating Insidious Chill on Free Expression on our Airwaves. . .

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The White House Stages Its 'Daily Show'
by Frank Rich, The New York Times, Feb. 20, 2005

"Jeff Gannon" is at least the sixth "journalist" who has been paid by either the administration
or its political allies, say New York Times arts columnist Rich.  Rich denounces the Bush administration's efforts to control news coverage of itself, but says the mainstream media is perhaps more at fault for its role in aiding and abetting the White House.

"If we did not live in a time when the news culture itself is divorced from reality, the story
might end there:. . ."

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