{"id":1166,"date":"2005-02-02T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2005-02-02T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T15:24:00","slug":"freedom-from-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"Freedom From Disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

In a previous post<\/a>, I highlighted Manuel Valenzuela, one of my favorite writers who did not make John Kaminski’s Top 25<\/a>. Valenzuela writes long essays composed of long sentences; his pieces require substantial time and effort — to read! Imagine what it takes to write them…<\/p>\n

Let’s go a different direction this time: Robert Parry<\/b> writes fairly short pieces using short and simple sentences. But that’s not why I like him so much. I like him because he never seems to get distracted from the major issues. He just keeps pounding away, hoping that eventually some of it might start to sink in. And maybe it will. Someday. <\/p>\n

Most of what Parry writes, most of what we read and see and think every day, every little bit of what we think of as ‘political reality’, can be better understood against the backdrop of Bush’s ‘Perception Management’ Plan<\/a>. If you haven’t read this important essay yet, please do so.<\/p>\n

You can find Robert Parry<\/b> at Consortium News<\/a>. Or you can click on the links here to read his most recent columns:<\/p>\n

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  • Money, Media & the Mess in America<\/a><\/li>\n

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  • Freedom from Reality<\/a><\/li>\n

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  • The Freedom to Follow<\/a><\/li>\n

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  • Bush’s Unaccountability Moment<\/a><\/li>\n

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  • The Bush Rule of Journalism<\/a><\/li>\n

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  • Bush’s ‘Death Squads’<\/a><\/li>\n

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  • History of Guatemala’s ‘Death Squads’<\/a><\/li>\n

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  • Kerry’s Last Flip-Flop<\/a><\/li>\n

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  • It’s the Media, Stupid!<\/a><\/li>\n

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  • Will John Kerry Report for Duty?<\/a><\/li>\n

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  • A ‘Long War’ Against Whom?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/div>\n

    Your comments, as always, are invited, and welcomed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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