Soldier on Gerard.

jimmmmmmmy: And by the way, in what way or ways did Assange’s first four programs “support Islamic fanatics”?
  It appears more that Arabic family names blow your mind. Then, of course there was Horowitz and Zizek.
And also Assange itself—certainly strange? I heard it came from the Chinese. But he’s Australian!
  It’s like a kid in the back row of one of my English classes told the head of the department:
  “Of course Ms. Gerard is a Communist.  She went to Japan.”
  Duh!

jimmmmmmmmy: Please bear in mind that it is at least possible to suppose that we are all a big disappointment to Assange as well—all things considered.

Assange’s first 4 programs supporting Islamic fanatics were tripe. The last one with a South American president was entertaining . All things said he’s been a big dissapointment.

the great wurlitzer

Speaking of media outlets speaking truth to power…

...have you ever visited Asia Times Online atimes.com
?

With renowned writers like Pepe Escobar, the writers
typically write anti-Empire type articles.

The site sounds very “international” with a Head
Office at: Unit B, 16/F, Li Dong Building, No. 9 Li
Yuen Street East, Central, Hong Kong.

Looks like a honey pot though:  the site’s funding is
mainly fromm ClA ads and the IP address is located in
Virginia. Try posting the question there and you’ll
have your post scrubbed.

Strange times indeed, most peculiar.

no media can be independent; media is always interdependent and permitted to
function, in whatever way it function, by a basic ideology.
the task, then, of any media is to defend the ideology by all means necessary; and
if privately owned, also by deception, lying, halftruthing, rationalization.
if we all owned media, such media wld actually give us adequate-accurate
information at all times [ok, mistakes cld still occur] and the one in hands of
individuals never will.
in u.s, media is congress, cia/fbi, army echelons, hollywood, tv, police echelons,
judiciary, w.h, bankers, plutocrats; each of which has the same task: to ensure
that some things stay forever the same.
of course, power to inform shld never ever be in private hands.
powers to wage wars, exploitation, to bring in drugs, to imprison some drug
users, pass/interpret/execute laws, etc., are also in private hands.
i think that giroux in his piece on td alludes to this fact.

I agree with PatrickHenry 100%; we do need media that is a lot more independent. Keep in mind that the “Public Airways” which the corporations now rule totally belong to us (the public). I say, yes to creating new independent sources of information, but at the same time let’s take back our public airways!

Dan Rather touched on the corporate ownership of the MSM on the latest Real Time with Bill Maher, I was impressed. 

We need alot more independent media in this country to assure factual reporting and to make certain opposing viewpoints are expressed.

“Something is wrong here isn’t it?  Doesn’t it seem like Mr. Assange should, like so many jihadists, have been silenced by now?”

When you say “silenced” Surfboy, don’t you mean “murdered”?

Sebastian Lawhorne; All RT has to do is report all our Corporate Media omits, and trolls like you will see it as Propaganda.

“Give them Hell Harry”; “I’m just telling the truth and to them it feels like hell!”

Sebastian Lawhorne:  I heard he proposed the idea to Fox News but they rejected it. Too real, they said. Goes against everything Glenn Beck has been trying to teach Americans for the last ten years.

Surfboy:  Research the case.

The amount of animosity being shown against Julian Assange and Bradley Manning is a direct indication of fear on the part of war-making powers to having their processes exposed publicly. Yet war can never be prevented and stopped without those processes being exposed publicly. The choice is clearly before us all—knowledge or willful ignorance, reconciliation and understanding or endless wars and grief. And also, of course, democracy or military dictatorship. The struggle is worldwide.

The mainstream media hasn’t told the truth about anything for at least twenty years. Nature abhors a vacuum and Assange and the internet have filled it. The old media has had its chance and chose to become liars and propagandists for the rich, powerful and war mad. The kings and queens of spin. The public is sick of them and their pathological lying. Good riddance to all of them.