Times flacks for Ikea

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 11:52 AM 4/20/00 -0400, Doug wrote:
>[from Johnson's Russia List]
>
>From: "Matthew Taibbi" <matt_taibbi at hotmail.com>
>Subject: eXile press review
>
>[excerpt]
>Is This Thing On?
>Press Review
>By Matt Taibbi
>
>....In many ways the [New York] Times provides the ultimate proof of why
>the intelligent and college-educated are more easily fooled than the poor
>and unsophisticated. People are much more easily distracted when they have

--- snip 

The most scary thing is that the Times is one of very few mainstream rags
in the US that covers any foreign stories at all.  So what the average
US-er gets is either journalistic schlock cooked by super-arrogant US
flacks (believe me, the arrogance of US journalists and businessmen abroad
is surpassed by virtually noone!) or get no foreign coverage at all.

Just like in the good ol'e Nazi Germany that invented the "loyal citizen
radio" - a radio receiver that had a switch instead of dial to switch the
stations between Berlin and local.   No foreign broadcast could be possibly
received - just like in the USA today dominated by local FM bands and
propaganda-central (NYT, NPR, ABC, CNN).  Sieg heil!

wojtek