To be somewhat Exacting - prior to the deregulation of Media Ownership - the Major Media Ownership in the US were roughly 540 some 12 years ago. Today - thanks to Truth In Congress / Senate - the Mass Media in the USA is owned by no more than 5 major players. Our Mass Media News - once the only check and balance the common man had against the Corporates and our Governments less than friendly schemes of occaision - has gone the way of the Hupmobile. Our Mass Media is scheduled for the 'Dumbing Down' of viewers - to make them stupider in their response and relation to events. We still do not have Voting Machines that are not corruptible - and which provide a paper trail for verification. The Media had 4 years to cover this and extract some sort of correction. They did nothing - and they will continue to misrepresent for a price. Stay coo - be well, keep it together and above all else .............. keep your mouth shut. Brien. From: "Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Politically Correct ??????????? Date: Fri, 7 Jan It seems all the news channels are owned by people with their own view and they don't allow others to distort it. Here in Seattle there is a great brouhaha over dead people voting in the past election and many live ones who weren't counted. Election was overturned on manual recount, but we should have a revote 1/2 the population is saying and most of the news services are pushing for that as well since the overturn (they predicted the Republican would win by a landslide. He won by 2 hundred something votes, then machine recount dropped it to 50 and third manual count sez 169 for the Democrats) It ain't over cuz the fat lady isn't even in the picture yet! From: "Steven M.Dristy, Jr." <soundwve@xxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Politically Correct ??????????? To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx Message-id: <01a201c4f480$c03e0de0$2802a8c0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> No Randy, I'm just saying that some editors won't print a certain story, or parts of a story, that they don't like, or don't think it will help to sell more newspapers. So don't always believe everything you read. (TV news is much worse. If it isn't "sensational", it doesn't make it on the tube.) Cases in point: the Fairbanks Daily News-miner (my local paper) and the -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.8 - Release Date: 1/3/2005