[161031] in Zephyr_Bugs
Conventional wisdom is bamboozlement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Karlin, Truthout)
Sun Feb 12 18:05:22 2012
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:05:21 -0500 (EST)
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t r u t h o u t | Buzzflash was founded nearly twelve years ago out of disgust. We were tired of what the late Carl Sagan called "one of the saddest lessons of history": *"If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us; it is simply too painful to acknowledge."*
*If you are tired of being bamboozled, BuzzFlash and Truthout need your financial support *today*.
[ https://members.truth-out.org/donate ]
We have had tremendously loyal and giving readers over the years, people like you who are passionately interested in the truth, who don't give up on achieving change.
Truthout/BuzzFlash is a nonprofit charity and provides a free service. But it is not without costs to wage a media battle of David against Goliath. We provide news, commentary and hope from a unionized staff located across the country.
Some readers, over the years, have asked why we depend on the Truthout community to sustain our mission. It's simple, in one important way: *if we were to bow to the corporate branding of our "conventional wisdom," in the end we will be just another source of "bamboozlement."* The framing of the news is shaped by Madison Avenue and the 1%*, not by the common sense of Main Street, not by the desire to base public policy on facts and faith in a secular democracy.
Those with the biggest pocketbooks can afford the biggest megaphones, but the mic checks of the Occupy movement showed that the human voice, when amplified in a chorus, can have enormous impact.
Join us in amplifying the voices and projecting the stories that must be heard - together, and only together can we continue to build media that's accountable to the people. *Please make a tax-deductible donation to help us reach our budget - we have about $32,000 left to raise.* Can you help?
Click here to donate. [ https://members.truth-out.org/donate ]
(Truthout is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN: 20-0031641)
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Thank you for your ongoing support of our mission!
Sincerely,
Mark Karlin
Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
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<p><span style=3D"font-size: medium; ">Some readers, over the years, have a=
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