OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

[Randy Edwards]

> As for making sure to hear all sides of anything, listening to
> senseless propiganda like this song doesn't usually help with that.
> This is part of the reason I make sure to get at least half of my
> news from sources outside of the US.

    This is one topic that amazes me -- the narrow range of US corporate 
media (and politics, but that's even more off topic:-).  Compared to 
England, which had a real debate about the war, the US media speaks with 
one voice.  As someone who watches the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. 
nightly, it's startling to see the difference in what gets covered.

    For example, the NSA note instructing espionage on security council 
members got huge coverage for days overseas.  Here in the US, it didn't 
make news for more than a day.

    And it's not just war.  I'm still amazed that the BBC covered the 
botched 2000 presidential election with multiple 15 minutes segments on 
its nightly news show elaborating in depth about how Jeb Bush and 
Katherine Harris booted over 90,000 Floridians (over 90% of them 
Democrats) off the voter rolls to rig the election by claiming they were 
felons.  The only US major media to cover this was the LA and NY Times.

    Similarly, when the parent company of the company which Jeb Bush 
hired to rig the Florida vote was selected as a major contractor for the 
Total Information Awareness program, no major media found this 
interesting enough to report.

    While monopolies in software are bad, monopolies and centralized 
mass media is worse.

  Regards,
  .
  Randy