When Dan Rather filed a suit for US$70 million against the CBS for having made him a scapegoat, he also pointed out to the fact that the US Government was influencing Newsrooms.

Who better to make such a statement than a news anchor?

After all they know what is going on behind the scenes, do they not?

But, as was pointed out, large corporations were also involved … which begs the point, when did all this begin? Or has this being going on from the Spanish-American War of 1898?

Remember the Hearst papers spurring on the crowd for the US to declare war on Spain? After all war is good for business, is it not?

Ask Dick Cheney and his corporate friends, they’re making millions, while GIs are dying in both Iraq and Afghanistan … but who cares … as long as we’re making big bucks, is standard corporate policy.

It looks like Dan Rather inadvertently spilled the beans.

Now, at least, the public will be aware that the news they are receiving is cooked up by the government and their corporate allies, and is not necessarily the truth at all. Is this any different therefore to the African Witch Doctor’s mumbo jumbo?

Because, if this be the case, then generations of Americans have been weaned on this garbage propaganda, and some have even died believing it.

So, it all comes down to who is giving out the real news, while the false info is taking the credit for controlling the minds of people. The point now is which news agency is not controlled by the US government and the corporations?

Is it CBS, CNN, FOX NEWS, NBC, ABC or some other lesser know news group?

But we have to face the fact, the news we have been getting is not news at all but hype.

Now just think of those Radio & TV stations in Venezuela, are they also getting their news from the same sources? No wonder they are all dumbing-down Hugo Chavez Frias of Venezuela. They have been ordered to do so by their parent company.

How many may have connections with US corporations and are deliberately fed false news to create confusion and panic in Venezuela.

Thus, the people who run Radio & TV stations in Venezuela may be unwitting (?) accomplices.

What Dan Rather has done is a service to the people of not only the United States, but the world … and we should be grateful to him on that score.

Kenneth T. Tellis
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