13-11-09 US: Media concentration

Although the full effects of his actions took some years to fully express themselves, Bill Clinton will surely be recognized with the passage of time as one of the US presidents that had the most destructive effects on Civil Society in the United States.
As is the case with banking deregulation, which brought us the Greater Depression, Bill Clinton also signed the Telecommunication Act of 1996...

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Wikipedia:

Telecommunications Act of 1996

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The Telecommunications Act of 1996[1] was the first significant overhaul of United States telecommunications law in more than sixty years, amending the Communications Act of 1934. The Act, signed by President Bill Clinton...

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Joerg Zimtbrötchen shared Timothy Dalton's photo.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. - Henry Adams If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. - Howard Zinn The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. - T. E. Lawrence Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. - Thomas Jefferson All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie. - Vladimir Lenin Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.. - Napoleon Bonaparte It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. - Walter Benjamin Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. - Hugo L. Black I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information. - Christopher Hitchens The press is our chief ideological weapon. - Nikita Khrushchev Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. - A. J. Liebling