Hi Folks,

I was watching the 1993 movie, "Manufacturing Consent" and in it,
Chomsky states that he believes the media in other countries is more
free than in this country (I'm paraphrasing here).  I think he means
that in other countries, the media is not so much a tool of control and
platitude repition as it is in the U.S.  My question to you, the CHOMSKY
list readers is: is this true in 1999?

I can't really say since my exposure to non-American media is limited to
Deutsche Welle tv once a week.  In my cynical view, I would think the
American/Corporate style of media is spreading and is the way of the
future.

Ed

P.S.  Don't you just hate it when, in the U.S. press, when reporting
some news from China or Russia, they say, "the state run news
agency..."?  I think, in some sense, CNN is a state run news agency, and
corporations are the state.