Life Under A Censored Mass Media
Jim Marrs, 10-27-03
http://www.rense.com/general43/massme.htm
"I myself was to experience how easily one
is taken in by a lying and censored press
and radio in a totalitarian state. Though
unlike most [Americans] I had daily access
to foreign newspapers, especially those of
London, Paris and Zurich, which arrived the
day after publication, and though I
listened regularly to the BBC and other
foreign broadcasts . . .
It was surprising and sometimes
consternating to find that notwithstanding
the opportunities I had to learn the facts
and despite one's inherent distrust of what
one learned from [government] sources, a
steady diet over the years of
falsifications and distortions made a
certain impression on one's mind and often
misled it. No one who has not lived for
years in a totalitarian land can possibly
conceive how difficult it is to escape the
dread consequences of a regime's calculated
and incessant propaganda. Often in a [ ]
home or office or sometimes in a casual
conversation with a stranger in a
restaurant, a beer hall, a cafe, I would
meet with the most outlandish assertions
from seemingly educated and intelligent
persons. It was obvious that they were
parroting some piece of nonsense they had
heard on the radio or read in the
newspapers. Sometimes one was tempted to
say as much, but on such occasions one was
met with such a state of incredulity, such
a shock of silence, as if one had
blasphemed the Almighty, that one realized
how useless it was then to try to make
contact with a mind which had become warped
and for whom the facts of life had become
what [Bush sources], with their cynical
disregard for truth, said they were."
I feel the lengthy paragraph above clearly
articulates life in present-day America for
a thinking, aware and concerned person.
This was written many years ago by William
L. Shirer and printed in his monumental
work, "The Rise and Fall of the Third
Reich" (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960)
pp. 247-248. I only changed it in four
places. To restore the original, simply
insert Germans for [Americans], Nazi for
[government], German for [ ] and Hitler and
(Nazi Propaganda Minister Dr.) Goebbels for
[Bush sources]. Isn't it amazing how
history repeats itself?
Jim Marrs
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