"We risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance"
- Rubén Blades

"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it"
- Art Buchwald

"It's getting exciting now, two and one-half. Think of everything we've accomplished, man. Out these windows, we will view the collapse of financial history. One step closer to economic equilibrium"
- Tyler Durden

"It is your corrupt we claim. It is your evil that will be sought by us. With every breath, we shall hunt them down."
- Boondock Saints

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Spin: Democracy At Work

Now that 2012 is here and the election pool has been trimmed, the remaining candidates will be scattered across the airwaves and their handlers will retain full control.  Back in 1995, Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public's perception of reality. Take the time to watch it from beginning to end and you'll never look at TV reporting the same again.

The treatment of Larry Agran reminds of the current treatment of Ron Paul.  You be your own judge.
Posted by Paul Revere at 1/04/2012 12:07:00 PM