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Courtesy of Glenn Greenwald at Salon, we find that the corporate media has reported on the major issues facing Americans with the following emphasis<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights to be inapplicable to “domestic military operations” within the U.S. The U.S. Attorney General appears to have fabricated a key event leading to the 9\/11 attacks and made patently false statements about surveillance laws and related lawsuits. Barack Obama went bowling in Pennsylvania and had a low score.
\nHere are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:
\n“Yoo and torture”<\/u> – 102
\n“Mukasey and 9\/11”<\/u> — 73
\n“Yoo and Fourth Amendment”<\/u> — 16
\n“Obama and bowling”<\/u> — 1,043
\n“Obama and Wright”<\/u> — More than 3,000 (too many to be counted)
\n“Obama and patriotism”<\/u> – 1,607
\n“Clinton and Lewinsky”<\/u> — 1,079<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If there were not already ample reasons why corporations should be banned forever from owning media outlets in a free society, this record of treason against the American public should be sufficient for even the most doctrinaire free market advocate.
\nA corporation is incapable of human values or awareness.  It only seeks money.  When the media is highly concentrated,  as it is, the problem becomes even worse because the companies that own the news outlets also own many other potentially profitable vehntures and subordinate the news to those interests as well.<\/p>\n

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