Living in the Land of the Porkbarrel

Submitted by Jack Ajzenberg (Barbados), Dec 17, 2002 at 09:01

Justifiably offended by the white wash&pablum probably evident in each frame of the PBS documentary Dr.Pipes refers to, the practice of public dollars paying for revisionist perspective must be regarded with critical scrutiny. In Canada, where taxpayers are often force-fed abject drivel on the Middle East emanating from CBC(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) & TVO (Television Ontario), a provincial public broadcaster & CBC wannabee, is tantamount to the most dehabilitating propagandizing practised by the defunct Soviet&Maoist propoganda machines of the Cold war era.

The sights&sounds of Senior CBC correspondants whining melifluously about the golden era of the peace process or beating their well fed torsos with the rods of injustice endured by "can't we all just get along'" Palestinian terrorists forced to take arms because of the inexorable logic of 'root causes' is enough to compel one to utter the rallying cry of 'Tax revolt'.

Admittedly, there is propaganda everywhere; it is necessary as a tool and used as such.

However the type of propaganda produced by North American public broadcasters(TV&Radio) insults the intelligence of the viewer& demonstrates once again that the chattering classes live in their own constellation & nexus,separate & apart from the earth dwellers charged with the responsibility for paying for overbudgeted productions peddling delusion, utopia & the skewered perspective of banrupt ideology.

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