“[America is] not a free country — everything is bought and sold and owned.”

November 25, 2007 | Filed Under Moment of Truth, Pay attention, Read this, Rewritable words 

Those words are from writer Charles Bukowski.  That message is at the heart of Jerry Mander’s 1977 book Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television.  The thing about Mander is that he worked in advertising for 15 years and even served as president and partner to one of the nation’s most celebrated agencies.  For those of you wanting to participate in the freegan lifestyle,  if only for one night, read it online at Mother Earth News. 

“We paid $3 billion for these television stations. We will decide what the news is. The news is what we tell you it is!”
– Alleged comment by David Boylan, station manager for Fox Tampa Bay (WTVT Ch 13) to two reporters who are currently suing the network for firing them and censoring a story about the use of bovine growth hormone in Florida cows.
Source: TurnOffYourTV.com

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