Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!ucbvax!ucsbcsl.UUCP!uncle From: uncle@ucsbcsl.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.politics Subject: Press Censorship - West : the subtle heavy-hand Message-ID: <12224241021.40.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 20-Jul-86 14:41:28 EDT Article-I.D.: RED.12224241021.40.MCGREW Posted: Sun Jul 20 14:41:28 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jul-86 00:50:28 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: ucsbcsl!uncle@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 41 Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu --------------- Return-Path: Date: Fri, 4 Jul 86 22:38:24 pdt From: Posted-Date: Fri, 4 Jul 86 22:38:24 pdt Subject: Press Censorship - West : the subtle heavy-hand (re: submission by wex@mcc re: press censorship modes ) (reference to submission by wex@mcc is from recollection i may not have acurately restated his position, however his article motivates the following comments:) i am a sometime net reader depending on which system i happen to have access to. i was browsing in net.politics and saw that you remarked upon the "free-world" approach to censorship. I think you are correct in your observations. One of the reasons that this state of affairs exists is the elevation and subsequent co-opting of "journalism" by the mass-media industry ( (firstname=?) (lastname= Cogburn(?)) a contributor to The Nation, recently wrote about this in "The Los Angeles Weekly" (complete with e.g.s of how the 60-min. monolith conveniently misses big targets and how it actively falsifies stories in order to contribute to the building of the prevailing neo-fascist liturgy which has come to dominate public discourse. One group which carries a very heavy responsibility and which receives scant criticism is 'academics'; they spend their lives delving into this and that and then when they see that UP is being offered up as DOWN etc. in the public discourse, when they see that such falsifications are being used as justifications for war etc., they don't rise up , no they just sit idly by figuring out how dept of destruction money for laser research can be rationalized as 'medical research', or how (fill in the blanks for everyone from anthropology to zoology!) !!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -------