You will find various links concerning the censorship issue in the United States. Even in the quaint small city of Scottsboro Alabama is affected by the tyranny of political officials and editorial staff who act on governmental officials request. Apathy and a feeling of non-control has resulted in the infringement on the rights of expression in our city, county, state and nation.
http://www.rense.com/general69/intercens.htm http://www.therecruiterslounge.com/2008/01/28/karen-rants-internet-censorship-and-cyberbullying-on-professional-business-internet-forums/ http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ip_speech.htm http://www.america.gov/st/freepress-english/2008/September/20080915175335esnamfuak0.8041956.html
Net Neutrality: http://s921.gridserver.com/media-girl/congress-selling-out-your-internet-access-corporate-censorship-updated
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Top25 censored stories: http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/y-2009/
Censorship in the U.S. for the past 30 years:http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/publications/
Whose responsible: http://www.projectcensored.org/censorship/corporate-media-ownership/
My articles on al.com censorship: http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/watch-for-snakes-n-scottsboro/posts/tag/al.com%20censorship/
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Alex Carey wrote about censorship in, "Taking the Risk Out of Democracy:" "The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy." Journalist Walter Lippmann called it the "manufacture of consent" in a democratic society where it can't be done by force, and Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman titled their landmark 1988 book "Manufacturing Consent" to describe the dominant media's "propaganda model" to program the public mind.It "filter(s) out the news to print, marginalize(s) dissent, (and assures) government and dominant private interests" control all information dissemination. It's done through a set of "filters" to remove what's unacceptable and "leav(es) only the cleansed residue fit to print" or broadcast.It raises the dilemma James Madison posed that "A popular government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives." Today it's from the media, and therein lies the problem.
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Mr. Carey had this to say about a ""propaganda-managed democracy"....to identify the free-enterprise system in popular consciousness with every cherished value, and to identify interventionist governments and strong unions with tyranny, oppression and even subversion." Carey called propaganda "communications where the form and content is selected with the single-minded purpose of bringing some target audience (the public or a company's employees, etc.) to adopt attitudes and beliefs chosen in advance by the sponsors." It's as important in democratic societies as in authoritarian ones. In addition, "the success of business (or government) propaganda persuading us that we are free from (this type influence) is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century."
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Governmental and corporate censorship in Scottsboro, Alabama is real, tyrants practice it frequently. The question is, do you the citizen care enough not to buy a product or participate in any organization who practices censorship such as Advance Publications through its subsidiary company al.com. Advance Publications owns several Alabama media operations, The Huntsville Times, The Birmingham News and The Mobile Press Register are 3 of Advance Publication's Alabama newspapers. Other Advance ownership companies and info: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Advance_Publications
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