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MEDIA

It is objective knowledge and hereby something we cannot deny meaningful if we speak rationally together, that there is a logical relation between persons and persons rights. Persons should be treated as persons and therefore as having rights. If we deny this postulate it goes wrong: here is a person, but this person should not be treated as a person, or: here is a person, who should be treated as a person, but not as having rights. Therefore we can only talk about persons in a way that makes sense if we know that persons have rights.
It is a fact and hereby objective knowledge, that Concentrations of power not always respect the rights of persons. If one denies this fact one gets: concentrations of power always respect the rights of persons. This does not correspond with our experiences. Concentrations of power characterize our society. Concentrations of power force persons to concentrate on participating in competition and power games, in order to create a social position for themselves. Concurrently with the concentrations of power dominating our conscious mind and being decisive to our situations, the significance of our fellow humans diminishes. And our own significance becomes the significance we have for concentrations of power, the growth of concentrations of power, and the conflicts of concentrations of power. It is of the utmost importance that we try to find ways of organizing with as small concentration of power as possible.
Mass media such as newspapers, television, radio stations, books, magazines etc. are to be considered concentrations of power, and at the same time, they represent other concentrations of power and their interests, for example government and commercial interests. Mass media also represent different ideological and religious points of view. Ideologies and religions are expressions of subjective opinions, social conventions and habitual conception and do not necessarily respect conditions for description such as the logical relation between persons and persons rights.
Media play a decisive role in anything from the initiation of wars to the way persons live their daily life. They influence what persons think and do, how they treat each other, and what their desires for shelter, food, sex and work etc are. Also what fields of knowledge persons get access to. Media have an important influence on what is considered significant in a society, by directing attention at certain events and persons and avoiding others.
Media have an interest in maintaining a stable audience that is easy to influence politically and economically with propaganda and commercials, and that hold certain views, fit a certain profile, so they can attract the investors and commercials etc. that fit this profile. (Thus the workings of media are based on a reduction of persons into certain stereotypes).
Media are considered an important feature of democracy and are believed to be a proof of freedom of speech and thus of one important right.
But as power concentrates around media, the democratic aspect of media diminishes, because it is by definition impossible to represent all persons. Instead what happens is that what is supposed to represent all persons, what we have in common, gets reduced to the lowest common denominator.
Journalists refer the opinions that they suppose people have.The process of selecting news for broadcasting itself is an example of concentration of power, where respect of persons rights, fact and conditions for description not necessarily prevail.
The media has no sincere interest in educating persons or to support other ways of thinking than the ideologies and religions supported by large concentrations of power, because they are themselves large concentrations of power and are financed by other large concentrations of power. The function of the media is often that they infantilize persons and exclude critical voices. And that they have no interest in mediating uncensored information of facts, because such facts could harm the interests of concentrations of power and hereby also the media.
To create fear and anxiety in the populations is one of the tools used by media and the other concentrations of power that they represent, in order to preserve ignorance and stability. This is done by deliberately selecting certain categories of news to be reported out disproportionally, like crime news.
The persons who work in media often have a high level of education and are trained in communication. This education process itself is frequently an exercise in leaving out facts, events and persons that are considered irrelevant. Once these persons enter a position where they have a decisive influence on what other people think about and talk about and how they spend their money and their lives, they ought to be conscious of their responsibility and their power. This is often not the case. On the contrary, they believe that what they are doing is right, that they are more intelligent and competent than others, and that they are doing their best.
Persons who work in the media and have personal success, meaning that they confirm the subjective opinions, social conventions and habitual conceptions, that correspond to the interests of large concentrations of power, easily become role models for others persons. Their behaviour becomes the behaviour that shapes subjective opinions, social conventions and habitual conceptions.
One should not take on the responsibility of mediating anything without being conscious of the dangers of concentrating power. Persons working for mass media should first and foremost try to protect the rights of persons and not the interests of concentrations of power. It is necessary to try find ways of organizing media with the smallest concentration of power as possible.
Thus, media apparatus represent concentration of power on all levels: from rendering of concrete events and conversations, to the different stages of decision-making about what will be published, to the concentration of power on the corporate level including mergers, the creation of media conglomerates with their actual ownership hidden, etc..
The media have no interest at all in changing this situation. On the contrary, being a large concentration of power is necessary in order to attract the capital and attention needed, in short, attract the attention of other concentrations of power.
At the same time, the media is an enormous industry that supports a lot of persons with the subject of their needs and desires, such as a good job and the possibility to support their children, etc.
Since the media are concentrations of power and also represent large concentrations of power, they don’t necessarily try to respect the rights of persons. What they first and foremost have to do is to try to survive in the struggle and competition with other concentrations of power.
One should not rely on mass media for information on what goes on in the world. The less persons use and rely on mass media, the less influence the media have.
In order to find ways of organising with as small concentrations of power as possible, it is important to find ways of reducing the influence of mass media and find other ways of distributing knowledge and information.
the rights of persons. What they first and foremost have to do is to try to survive in the struggle and competition with other concentrations of power.
One should not rely on mass media for information on what goes on in the world. The less persons use and rely on mass media, the less influence the media have.
In order to find ways of organising with as small concentrations of power as possible, it is important to find ways of reducing the influence of mass media and find other ways of distributing knowledge and information

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A top aide to Barack Obama is warning of catastrophic consequences if Republicans follow through on threats to reject an increase in the nation’s borrowing limit.
Soon after the 112th Congress convenes Wednesday, Republicans in the House plan to make good on a campaign promise that helped vault many new members to victory: voting to repeal Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
Senate Democrats, led by Majority Leader Harry Reid, have announced that they will block any attempt by the GOP to repeal the sweeping health care law, which is aimed at getting 32 million Americans insurance coverage.
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo will seek a one-year salary freeze for state workers as part of an emergency financial plan he will lay out in his State of the State address on Wednesday, senior administration officials said.
U.S. crude oil futures set a two year high on Monday, the first trading day of the year, as positive U.S. manufacturing and European data and cold weather forecasts spurred expectations of higher energy demand.
Roughly 1.53 million consumer bankruptcy petitions were filed in 2010, up 9 percent from 1.41 million in 2009, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute, citing data from the National Bankruptcy Research Center.
College seniors graduating in 2009 had an average of $24000 in student loan debt, marking a 6 percent rise from the previous year.
The Project on Student Debt report puts the unemployment rate for recent college graduates at 8.7 percent in 2009 (up from 5.8 percent in 2008), the highest annual rate on record for college students between the ages of 20 to 24.
Home prices will continue to decline for several years, Mort Zuckerman, the chairman and CEO of Boston Properties, told CNBC Monday.
Back in 1970, 25 percent of all jobs in the United States were manufacturing jobs. Today, only 9 percent of the jobs in the United States are manufacturing jobs.
Net job loss due to the trade deficit with China from 2001 to 2008 affected every state in the U.S., with California, Texas and North Carolina incurring the most losses relative to population, according to a report released by the Economic Policy Institute.
U.S. private employers have recorded 11 consecutive months of job gains, yet the number of people who are so discouraged that they have given up searching for work stands at an all-time high.
Even if the U.S. economy grows at a 4 percent rate, it is being projected that the U.S. unemployment rate will still be above 8 percent at the end of 2012.
Millions of Americans are heading to food banks for the first time in their lives.
There are more indications than ever that America's infrastructure is crumbling all around us.
One town in Michigan is pleading with the state to let them declare bankruptcy.
Investors are pulling money out of municipal bonds at a rate that is absolutely staggering.
Real GDP in the 3rd quarter of 2008 was $13.2 trillion. Real GDP in the 3rd quarter of 2010 was $13.3 trillion.  Think about these facts for one minute. Your leaders have borrowed $5.7 trillion from future unborn generations and have increased GDP by $100 billion.
European debt markets could be hit by a second credit crisis within months as fears grow over the huge volume of new bonds that must be sold by governments and banks in 2011.
Rising inflation in China is starting to alarm the rest of the globe.
A raft of new federal and local laws ring in the new year, governing a span of topics from health care and finance to texting, guns and smoking.
Californians welcomed the implementation of 725 new laws on January 1st.
Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republicans' top congressional investigator in his role as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, says that Barack Obama is "one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times".
Delaware authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the recent discovery of the body of a former Pentagon official in a landfill, according to a statement released Monday by the Newark, Delaware, Police Department.
Janet Napolitano, the United States homeland security secretary, said Saturday that her department planned to triple the number of agents in Afghanistan to train border and customs workers — an effort that is partly aimed at curbing the smuggling of cash out of the country.
Iran has missiles that can reach Israel in 12 minutes, according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
Hizbullah would likely shoot between 400 and 600 missiles a day into Israel during a future war, a senior Mossad official told a congressional delegation to Israel in 2009, according to a US diplomatic cable published on Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Sunday to sit down with him in direct talks until “white smoke emerges” - an allusion to how popes are selected.
The U.S. administration is furious with Defense Minister Ehud Barak over the stalled peace talks, sources have told Haaretz. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama's senior advisers say that for more than a year and a half Barak misled them about his persuasive powers with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the peace process.
The Palestinian Authority announced Sunday that Chile and Uruguay intend to declare recognition of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.
According to Debka, Saudi Arabia has arranged to have available for its use two Pakistani nuclear bombs or guided missile warheads.
The embattled border city of Ciudad Juarez had its bloodiest year ever with 3,111 people killed in drug violence, an official said Saturday.
A strong earthquake has shaken central Chile, disrupting power and communications but causing no casualties or serious damage. The quake had a magnitude of 7.1 and its epicenter was 70km (45 miles) northwest of Temuco with a depth of 25km, the U.S. Geological Service said.
A strong earthquake measuring 7.0-magnitude hit a sparsely populated region of northern Argentina early on Saturday (local time), officials said.
Swine flu has spread more rapidly in Britain than in the rest of Europe, the World Health Organization has revealed, as the Government faces growing criticism over the country's preparations for an epidemic.
An Ohio sheriff says a 10-year-old boy is in juvenile custody after telling a neighbor he had shot and killed his mother.
More than 20 towns in Queensland have been cut off or flooded across an area larger than France and Germany, with more than 200,000 people affected.
According to a recent report in The Australian, both Europe and Japan may cancel their non-GMO grain contracts with Australian growers because of GM contamination, including the recent case of Steve Marsh who lost his organic certification due to GM canola invading his fields.
A secret £7 million weather project in Abu Dhabi has resulted in dozens of man-made rainstorms, according to reports.
According to recent studies, field workers and their children who live in the Salinas Valley of California, also known as the world’s “salad bowl” because of its massive produce exports, are experiencing significant developmental and other health problems as a result of continual pesticide exposure.
A mysterious event that caused thousands of redwing blackbirds to rain down from the sky New Year's Eve in the Arkansas town of Beebe most likely occurred when loud noises and fireworks frightened a flock that roosts in a neighborhood, causing them to die when they flew into buildings and other obstacles, says a state ornithologist.
State officials on Monday were investigating why 80,000 to 100,000 fish washed up dead on the shores of the Arkansas River last week.
The Diversity Committee of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) is undertaking an educational campaign against the term “illegal immigrant,” seeking to inform reporters that the term “illegal immigrant” is “offensive” to Latinos.
Saving up this years gift cards to make a large purchase? You better use them up fast because state governments like New Jersey think they have a better use for that money.
The momentum to remove fluoride from America’s water supplies is picking up steam, thanks to mounting evidence that the toxic chemical byproduct of the aluminum and phosphate fertilizer industries causes brain damage, thyroid problems and cancer. Councilman Peter Vallone (D-Queens) recently told those attending a city council meeting that he plans to introduce legislation to remove fluoride from the nation’s most populous city.
Canadian pro-life advocates are concerned a recent decision by the Supreme Court of Canada could pave the way for grisly research involving cloning and merging different species.
Investigators in New York said Sunday they are looking into a report that four sanitation supervisors assigned to clean up after last week's monster blizzard instead bought beer and sat in their car.
Italy has joined an increasing number of countries and U.S. cities that ban stores from handing out plastic shopping bags.
A starving North Korea is reportedly spending more than £100 million on new offices and villas for Kim Jong-un, the country's heir-apparent.
Less than half of all Americans said they will make New Year's resolutions for 2011, a new survey has revealed.
Planned Parenthood's website has announced that the group is preparing to launch a nationwide “social change initiative” to end the “stigma and shame about sex” in American culture.
By unanimous consent in the Senate, Chai Feldblum, a lesbian law professor and the primary author of the pro-homosexual Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), was recently confirmed as a member of the powerful Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which wields enormous power over the nation's employers.
At least 21 people were killed and more than 70 injured in Egypt in a suspected suicide bombing outside a church in Alexandria as worshippers left a new year service.
Christians throughout the Middle East are facing more persecution today than at any other time in the modern era.
Pope Benedict XVI has said that he will organize a summit in Assisi with religious heads to discuss how they can promote world peace.
In November, the U.S. State Department announced a new $2 million grant to begin work to preserve the surviving ruins of the ancient city of Babylon.
The Navy has opened an investigation into how a series of raunchy videos were produced and shown to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise while on deployment supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lastly, why do all the crazies get all the attention from the mainstream media?  From her Subaru, a car painted as white as the fourth horse of Revelation, Allison Warden proclaims that Jesus shall return on May 21.

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