Unequal access to secret information shows us who is doing real journalism

Post author:Erich Vieth
Post published:June 30, 2013
Post category:Corporatocracy / Corruption / hypocrisy / Orwellian / Propaganda / Secrecy / Silence / Spying / Whistle-blowers
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Chris Hayes nails it on MSNBC. The U.S. government and its many cronies in the mass media love to disburse secret information when it bolsters the position of the government. They take the opposite position when information embarrasses the U.S. government.

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Love his conclusion: The conduct of the vast and growing surveillance web is “on all of us what the government does in our name.”

Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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