Today's quote
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
— Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Recently addedThey Thought They Were Free : The Germans, 1933-45, Milton Mayer The Exception to the Rulers : Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them, Amy Goodman, David Goodman The left hand of God : taking back our country from the religious right, Michael Lerner Practicing Peace in Times of War, Pema Chodron Understanding power : the indispensable Chomsky, edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel
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BookProject stands in solidatity with Occupy Wall
Street and the local occupy groups
OWS has inspired. OWS's focus on realizing the will of the people aligns with our
view that the vast majority of people in all nations bring forth the same values
when they rise to meet the profound moral challenges of our day: creating peace,
creating a parity of social wealth, and sustaining life on our planet.
Today's excerpt
"By providing slick press releases, paid-for "experts," ostensibly neutral but actually bogus citizen groups, and canned news events, crafty PR agents can shape the news to suit their mostly corporate clientele. Powerful corporate interests, wary of government regulation, spend a fortune to ensure that their version of science gets a wide play in the news as objective truth. Media owners welcome PR because it provides, in effect, a subsidy for them by offering filler at no cost. Surveys show that PR accounts for anywhere from 40 to 70 percent of what appears as news. — Robert W. McChesney, The Problem of the Media : U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century
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