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Conspiracy theory. Do these two words have you reading on or tuning out? Do they mean to you the possibility of revealed truths or the fevered imaginings of the near psychotic?
Conspiracy Theory has become a highly pejorative term thrown out flippantly by those accused as though this was the only explanation required. A tar brush of impunity from answering often valid and substantive questions. In Chomsky's film "Manufacturing Consent" and in his book "Hegemony or Survival" he claims that a genuine investigation of conspiracy has been rendered meaningless to the wider population by a media branding of that term. And I think this is true. So how do we bring genuine and independent investigative research back in from the fringes?
The only way I can think of is to rescue the truth is to wrestle the means to propagate it from the corporate media. The independence of the mainstream press is a lie. They have been demonstrated by hundreds of thousands of examples to promote a politically motivated bias and that this collusion is specifically designed to manufacture consent or apathy. What we need is a concerted campaign to remove altogether from our airwaves the singular viewpoint and to enshrine in law the obligation to have the contrary view equally expressed. Here in the UK only Channel 4 has been doing just that, in a limited way, by transmission of programming like the alternative to the Queens Christmas Day speech, a speech by President Ahmedinejad of Iran. But this has to go much further.
Freedom of speech is meant to be one of the fundamentally defining characteristics of democracy. And as such if the popular press is solely in the hands of self serving elites that fundamental benchmark of democracy is void. We have to remove from these elites the means to control information. We have to make the dissemination of information an endeavour open to the highest levels of scrutiny and deliberate misrepresentation, or omission of highly relevant knowns, a punishable crime with severe penalties. Advertising or sponsorship and the reduction of news to meaningless soundbites of rehearsed propaganda has to be replaced by genuine debate. How do we do this? I need ideas as I personally want to begin campaigning for just that. I am tired of posting on sites like the BBC public record facts only to have them removed. (For example stating that the Cheif UN weapons inspectors saying unequivocally prior to the invasion that Iraq had no WMD, deleted by the BBC. Such deletions are deliberate manipulation of truth.).
So as well as your comments and ideas I invite any tips on the existance of groups dedicated to such a cause.
Conspiracy Theory has become a highly pejorative term thrown out flippantly by those accused as though this was the only explanation required. A tar brush of impunity from answering often valid and substantive questions. In Chomsky's film "Manufacturing Consent" and in his book "Hegemony or Survival" he claims that a genuine investigation of conspiracy has been rendered meaningless to the wider population by a media branding of that term. And I think this is true. So how do we bring genuine and independent investigative research back in from the fringes?
The only way I can think of is to rescue the truth is to wrestle the means to propagate it from the corporate media. The independence of the mainstream press is a lie. They have been demonstrated by hundreds of thousands of examples to promote a politically motivated bias and that this collusion is specifically designed to manufacture consent or apathy. What we need is a concerted campaign to remove altogether from our airwaves the singular viewpoint and to enshrine in law the obligation to have the contrary view equally expressed. Here in the UK only Channel 4 has been doing just that, in a limited way, by transmission of programming like the alternative to the Queens Christmas Day speech, a speech by President Ahmedinejad of Iran. But this has to go much further.
Freedom of speech is meant to be one of the fundamentally defining characteristics of democracy. And as such if the popular press is solely in the hands of self serving elites that fundamental benchmark of democracy is void. We have to remove from these elites the means to control information. We have to make the dissemination of information an endeavour open to the highest levels of scrutiny and deliberate misrepresentation, or omission of highly relevant knowns, a punishable crime with severe penalties. Advertising or sponsorship and the reduction of news to meaningless soundbites of rehearsed propaganda has to be replaced by genuine debate. How do we do this? I need ideas as I personally want to begin campaigning for just that. I am tired of posting on sites like the BBC public record facts only to have them removed. (For example stating that the Cheif UN weapons inspectors saying unequivocally prior to the invasion that Iraq had no WMD, deleted by the BBC. Such deletions are deliberate manipulation of truth.).
So as well as your comments and ideas I invite any tips on the existance of groups dedicated to such a cause.
