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 | | Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press by Kristina Borjesson (Editor) ISBN-10: 9781591022305 ISBN-10: 1-59102-230-4 ISBN-13: 9781591022305 ISBN-13: 978-1-59102-230-5 Paperback 2004-10 Prometheus Books Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description A collaboration of essays by award winning journalists that examines and demonstrates how suppression, manipulation, and distortion of information in news have reached a crisis level- to the point of posing a significant threat to a free American society. Featuring new chapters by Dan Rather, Ashleig Banfield, Charlotte Dennett, Charles Reina and others. | ||
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Can I ADD Five More Stars ***** It's books like this, far too rare, that proove America has gone the way of ancient Rome. Alexis De Tocqueville says, "...freedom of the press is the principal and, so to say, the constitutive element of freedom". And we only find out, by turning off the TV and holding ourselves independently responsible for our own thought, that freedom of the press is nonexistent in America by reading books like "Into the Buzzsaw". One of the saddest stories I've ever read is the Bobby Garwood story. Google it. You will be shocked. The mainstream media does not tell you about this because they are controlled (even if the censorship is voluntary) by the government. "Into the Buzzsaw" tells us about the real investigation into the downing of TWA flight 800 in 1996. The mainstream media does not tell you about this because they are controlled (even if the censorship is voluntary) by the government. The stories are endless, but because they implicate the US gov't in crimes, they are not allowed to be told within the establishment. Now you know why you don't hear from the establishment what really happened to JFK, or on 9/11. What other stories are you unaware of? How about this one: On March 4, 2008, the citizens of Marlboro, VT voted in their annual town meeting to indict George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for war crimes, obstruction of justice and perjury. The vote was 43-25 with three abstentions. The town of Brattleboro did the same, voting 2,012-1,795. Then, just a few weeks ago, 35 articles of impeachment against Bush and Cheney were introduced in the House of Representatives. How does it feel to have organized crime running the United States of America and you aren't even aware of it because you have delegated your thought to the very govenment that endeavors to enslave you? Tocqueville hit the nail on the head in 1835 when he wrote, "nowadays, even despotism, though it seemed to have nothing more to learn, has been perfected by civilization"! | ||
Superb book; a necessity for being prepared and to be a "good citizen" We've got a lot of problems in the U.S., and the world, at the present time. It's said that the truth will set "U.S." free, and that's true everwhere, not just the post 9/11 U.S. "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free" is the truest statement ever made, and it doesn't say "maybe", but "shall". Some people, by their actions, show that the truth isn't important to them. When something bad (because of a lack of truth) happens to them, some of them start to see how important the truth really is. I'm a doctor and know that breast cancer is a big problem for many. The chapter by Jean Akre (formerly of a Skunk News affiliate in Florida) is important for people, especially women concerned about breast cancer, to know about. It deals with bovine growth hormone/bovine lactotrophic hormone/rBGH that is currently being used to stimulate cows to produce unnaturally large quantities of milk. Of course, the risks would be those of breast cancer for the cows and the people drinking this milk. This chapter explains how good FDA people invited Ms. Akre up to FDA headquarters to tell her about a disaster in the future for people who don't heed the warnings about breast cancer, and subsequently chronicles the despicable, dishonest retaliation against Ms. Akre and her husband, including bankrupting them, and legal proceedings in the court of lies. Many people are naive, believe that the government is their "protecter/benefactor", and mercilessly criticize those who try to tell the truth as "unpatriotic". False patriotism has always been the refuge of scoundrels and many of this ilk, by failing to heed the warnings about the "cancer industry" and criticizing those who who tried to warn them about it as "unpatriotic", will ironically wind up funding it through their own cancers and other diseases. People reap what they sow, and God had immutable laws by which He designed this Universe, and through which people should live to optimize health, happiness, and the good of others. | ||
First Published in 1980, Need Another Whole New Book There are many excellent reviews of this book, many with real substance that need not be repeated. I searched in vain across all 44 reviews and could not find anyone pointing out that this book was first published in 1980, a quarter-century ago. It's a worthy book, but completely out of date--the practices it describes are not out of date, but we all need a major update. I recommend Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin and Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth' as two current updates. From the larger literature within which I appreciate this book, I see four fully interwoven reasons why America is no longer a republic: 1) Excessive concentration of wealth at the top, CEOs earning 400 times more a year than their lowest paid employee. See Lee Iacocca's recent work, Where Have All the Leaders Gone? 2) Wealth corrupting politicians, while corporate personality avoids justice. The Federal Reserve in particular needs to be closed down. 3) A house-broken media unwilling to challenge "the establishment," and 4) An inert public, not realizing that it is being treated--in human terms--just as inhumanely as cattle force fed to death in fourteen months. "Live Free or Die." Now there's a theme. There are 27 secessionist movements in America, among which Vermont's is the most viable. The time may well have come to dissolve the existing federal government if we cannot achieve electoral reform and the restoration of constitutional integrity. | ||
Press = Maximize Protit$/No Responsibility/No Accountability Fait Accompli? "Hey, don't blame us, the government told us its true!" I suppose we should unprivitize the press as middlemen and get it direct from the source. Of course a complication arises: is it a government or corporate source. No questioning either souce unless the intrepid reporter wants to challenge the establishment and go INTO THE BUZZSAW! Welcome the few, the proud, the need a job. Your unemployable if your speaking truths about the POWER ELITES. Don't you do doublespeak? Don't you know Newspeak? Don't you know that the Orwellian world is our reality? Still if you insist on being a real reporter for the people, its the BUZZSAW for you. And of course you'll never get those MILLION DOLLAR GOLDEN HANDCUFFS of our star anchor T.V. persons! Without a doubt these are a few of the repoter's HOT TRAILBLAZERS, that NEVER make the mainstream press. The reliance on official sources give those in political office (and to a lesser extent those in big business) considerable power to set the news agenda by what THEY speak about. It gives the news a very establishment and MAINSTREM feel. Check INTO THE BUZZSAW and get out of the Hotel California of mainstream information. Learn about Govt./Fox News, Oil/ Terror Big Buck$, CIA= The World Mafia In Drug Dealers, Viet Nam POWs left BEHIND, Flight 800 shot down by a Navy missile, and much more. They believe the PUBLIC CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH. The truth is once the public knows the truth THEY WON'T BE IN OFFICE. The truth is the GOVERNMENT/PRESS can't handle the truth. They despise it. THEY hide it from us! Read INTO THE BUZZSAW and blow to smithereens out of their Hotel California lies. | ||
Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press This is not the first book or program to decry the disappearance of classical American investigative journalism. The anthology assembled from seasoned and often award winning journalists tells us that in many subtle but also heavy handed ways, the information which we the public are permitted to get through the mainstream news media has been heavily managed by corporate and government forces. Having been properly selected and groomed, the mainstream talking J-heads such as Dan Rather know what they may present as news and what they may not discuss. As bad as corporate news management had been presented in the Russel Crowe movie THE INSIDER, it is much worse than that, tell us the oft times ousted reporters and TV producers in INTO THE BUZZSAW who wouldn't or couldn't toe the line. Some years ago, a similar group of American journalists mourned in front of a television camera for the discouraging journalism scene in America. The documentary, produced for PBS at the public televison station in San Jose is called FEAR AND FAVOR IN THE NEWSROOM in which Pulitzer Prize winning former New York Times, Washington Post and also network TV journalists tell stories similar to those in INTO THE BUZZAW. But that TV program was produced some ten years ago, and I had hoped that truth in the newsroom would undergo a renaissance. Wrong! As INTO THE BUZZSAW tells us, the situation has become much worse year by year, and decade by decade. The message in this book is a sad one: poor American journalism, poor democracy. The hope is that those who value both classical American democracy and also the pursuit of high quality, incisive journalism that is required to nourish it will keep on digging out the news that is needed to maintain a free society. | ||