Friday, September 22, 2006

Falling Gas Prices: The Corporate Media's Silent Complicity

Gasoline has dropped around seventy cents a gallon from where it was just a few months ago, with no significant change in the world market, and the supposed pipeline problem in Alaska--even after the "adjustment"--that theoretically adds to the supply problem.

Why is the corporate media--and, for that matter, the "alternative" media--not beating the public over the head about the blatant manipulation of oil prices? Manipulation that takes a good deal of the day-to-day edge off of public anger that might take the form of throwing out some of the Republicans and Republicrats?

The merger of the Fourth Estate and the Fifth Column in the U.S. continues...

TLC

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