03/25/05

This country is becoming more unrecognizable with each passing day. The government, we've learned recently, now packages the news. It provides television stations with hundreds of video news releases made up to resemble actual news reports that give us predigested, Orwellian information designed to convince the public that everything in the nation is being well-managed. Alongside this ... comes the added revelation that the presidential hops George W. Bush is taking to peddle his case for dismantling Social Security are not conversations with local citizens ... but carefully arranged events before prescreened audiences who hear presentations from panelists who've been, by the recent admission of one of them, repeatedly rehearsed on what to say. ... The only thing worse than the government these days -- if such is possible -- are those portions of the populace to whom this government owes its allegiance...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/217447_locke25.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp