<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>I've spent the better part of this afternoon watching the cable news nets, something I rarely, if ever, do, and I don't know how any informed person can stand it. The relentless pro-state propaganda, the constant refrain that the US is always Right, always Good, no matter how much blood drips from its hands, is mindblowing to me. Maybe it's age, but I do not remember it being this bad when I was a media activist from the mid-80s through the mid-90s. Perhaps because I was immersed and thus conditioned to the chest-beating is why it seemed less offensive than it is now. But after a few hours of CNN, Fox, & MSNBC, I'm convinced that our information elite is seriously crazy -- and dangerous. Thank God for the Web.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>DP</DIV></BODY></HTML>