Media Control a Threat to America

Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director, is on record to have bragged that the Obama campaign controlled the media rather than allowing the press to determine the narrative. She went on to say "So it was very much we controlled it, as opposed to the press controlled it." .... But we increasingly by the general election very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control". This gave great insight into what to expect from the Obama administration.

It is now estimated that about 85% of all media is controlled by the White House. They are not satisfied and currently they are launching an all out attack on Fox News, talk radio, and even the Internet. It is not a question as to whether you like these venues or not, the issue is one of cutting off all potentially opposite or critical viewpoints. Obama FCC "Diversity’ Czar", Mark Lloyd. thinks the coup that put Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez in power was an "incredible, democratic revolution". He is quoted as saying, "It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. . . . This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. . . . At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies." He expressed admiration on how Hugo Chavez controls the media! This is a White House selected czar.

Obama’s new Federal Communications Commission chairman, Julius Genachowski, wants to "propose new rules that would prohibit Internet service providers from interfering with the free flow of information and certain applications over their networks". The Internet is a mass communications phenomenon that allows free ideas and freedom of speech to flow abundantly and has heretofore been allowed to exercise this freedom unchecked by the federal government.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is a public agency (that means taxpayer funded) dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Yet is clear that the NEA has been used as a propaganda source for the Obama campaign, as well as in support of White House policies. An Independent agency?

Propaganda is rampant throughout our education system from elementary school all the way through college. In some cases it has the appearance of classic indoctrination, not even subtle. Propaganda is being fed through all veins of the entertainment industry...television programs, movies, plays, and music.

With an announced strategy of control, followed by an attack on all avenues of media and communication, why isn't this being considered not only a major violation of the First Amendment, but an all out threat to our freedoms and democracy? Where is the media on all this? Where is journalism? Where is the critical review and questioning? Our democracy, any democracy, depends upon the media doing it's job for the good of the country.

A silent and / or complicit media is a betrayal to our country.