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Weapons of Mass DistrACTION is a group of
artists and political activists working to focus public awareness on the
fact that our media sources are purveying a highly slanted version of events--slanted to influence public opinion in favor of their corporate owners. While journalistic standards have declined and the networks' claims to objectivity are laughable, there has been no effort to differentiate editorial opinion from fact: the result is a looking-glass world in which lies masquerade as truth, the government can take over Iraq using the crudest lies and exaggerations as justification, or attempt to destroy Social Security based on highly colored allegations about its financial soundness. All of these escapades are, in fact, red herrings meant to distrACT the public's attention from the larger picture: the wholesale looting of the American economy by neocons who ravage with all the gusto of the Sicilian Mafia. The incident spotlighted to the left neatly captures the contradictions in this approach.
The lack of reliable information about our government, economy, and world (coupled with an increasingly lame public education system: some would say an intentionally lamed system) contributes to a poorly-informed public not used to researching and thinking out its own answers; thus ever more open to manipulation and fearmongering by unscrupulous political operatives, both in and outside of the government. This is in fact what has happened since the beginning of the Reagan era, but it has developed avalanche speed since the coronation of George II in 2001. We submit it is no coincidence that the pace of media ownership concentration follows an exactly similar trend in those years.
See also ABOUT WEAPONS for deeper exploration of these issues.
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Our FEAR CHANNEL NEWS division is now cutting its March 19 Iraq Invasion Commemorative, "Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.)". The Fear Channel pundits will be seen over SCAN-TV Ch. 29 in Seattle, Friday the 13th of May from 9 to 9:30. WMD's parent organization, Northwest CyberArtists, also sponsors the Art of Resistance conference click here for details. If you would like to help out, or if you are an
alternative media source looking to contribute to contact Steve Anderson
Steve Anderson here or at 206.850.1442. If you are interested in acting or doing tech work on the FEAR CHANNEL NEWS performance, contact Larry Neilson here or call him at 206.522.2135. Schedule updates are posted frequently on this website.
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