Fake News for Big Brother

Major Variola (ret) mv at cdc.gov
Tue Apr 29 09:44:01 PDT 2003


At 10:16 AM 4/29/03 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
>I'm not sure how I feel about this. Problems would arise if there
*were* a
>law against
>news media presenting false information. The question becomes 'What is
>truth?', and
>'Who decides".

Peter is right on.  Everyone needs to remember that police can lie,
media
can lie, governments lie.

And remember that broadcast media requires government licensing.




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"They did what?" --My wife, when I reminder her about the Tuskegee
experiments,
when she doubted the USG would plant things in Iraq





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