WASHINGTONSBLOG. US blog exposing Mainstream media lying

Washingtonsblog is an anonymous US blog telling the truth in response to Mainstream media lying : http://www.washingtonsblog.com/ .

Washingtonsblog re Mainstream media lying, and MSM lying about war in particular: “There are five reasons that the mainstream media is worthless [re war]. 1. Self-Censorship by Journalists. Initially, there is tremendous self-censorship by journalists… 2. Censorship by Higher-Ups. If journalists do want to speak out about an issue, they also are subject to tremendous pressure by their editors or producers to kill the story… 3. Drumming Up Support for War. In addition, the owners of American media companies have long actively played a part in drumming up support for war... 4. Access.Politico reveals: For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few”: Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors… 5. Censorship by the Government. Finally, as if the media’s own interest in promoting war is not strong enough, the government has exerted tremendous pressure on the media to report things a certain way… Can We Win the Battle Against Censorship? We cannot just leave governance to our “leaders”, as “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance” (Jefferson). Similarly, we cannot leave news to the corporate media. We need to “be the media” ourselves.

“To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.”

- Abraham Lincoln

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Powerlessness and silence go together. We…should use our privileged positions not as a shelter from the world’s reality, but as a platform from which to speak. A voice is a gift. It should be cherished and used.”

– Margaret Atwood

“There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at points in history and creating a power that governments cannot suppress.”

- Howard Zinn (historian)

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent”

- Thomas Jefferson” [1]

[1]. Washingtonsblog, “5 reasons that coroarte media coverage in pro-war”: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/12/5-reasons-that-corporate-media-coverage-is-pro-war.html .