Thread: News Blackouts?

Unidentified reporter admits 'there is total control' of news about drug violence at the border

Phil Boehmke

The free press has all but disappeared. The news is often little more than a means of controlling the message. Entire areas of the country have experienced an information blackout. Many frightened citizens rely on bloggers, face book, twitter and text messages as their only source of news and information. Open warfare rages below the Rio Grande.

The Houston Chronicle reports that.

After years of relative calm, the gangland nightmare is back-and yet, barely a single mention of the clashes here has been made by local radio and television or newspapers. The city's journalists, having lost some of their own and seen their colleagues across the country killed or kidnapped, have been silenced for fear of their lives.

"Nowhere is the media controlled more than it is here," said one reporter, who stressed he would face serious danger if identified. "There is total control."

In border towns like Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros, Reynosa and numerous others, gun battles between the military and the powerful Zetas and the Gulf Cartel have been fought around the clock during the past week. Officials at all levels of the government have offered little if any information to a frightened citizenry amid the media blackout. One local businessman remarked that "before the news was alarmist; now there's no information at all."

Now, journalists say all the local news outlets get constant messages-sometimes from colleagues working for the gangsters-ordering which events are to be covered and those that are not.

The local media have little choice but to comply with the demands of the powerful cartels or face the bloody consequences.

Four journalists were kidnapped Monday in the city of Gomez Palacios, another northern city battered by gang warfare. Gangsters demanded that television stations broadcast videos favorable to them in exchange for the journalists' lives. The station complied, but the men had not been released as of Thursday evening.

The latest wave of violence along the U.S. border was sparked by a dispute this past winter between the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel marking a violent split between former allies who had joined forces in 2003 to battle rival gangs from Mexico's Pacific Coast. The ultimate prize remains the same; control of the smuggling routes which funnel narcotics and illegal immigrants into the United States.

Meanwhile here in America, the Obama regime and their fellow travelers in the mainstream media are busy controlling the news from our southern border and using their power and influence to prevent the state of Arizona from taking badly needed steps to protect their citizens.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... its_t.html

Meanwhile here in America, the Obama regime and their fellow travelers in the mainstream media are busy controlling the news from our southern border and using their power and influence to prevent the state of Arizona from taking badly needed steps to protect their citizens.

Gibbs takes every available piece of border and illegal immigration news and converts it to an Obama con-game message. You can actually watch him as he creates the wall of lies while standing at the microphone, silently patting himself on the back for what a whiz of a con-artist he is.

The leftist newspapers and TV stations add their own layers of double-warp onto the Obama hype and proceed to brainwash and mislead the public even further.

No wonder people don't trust their government and its Media Tools anymore. They're nothing but a bunch of lopsided heavy-handed cheating controllers out to steal from the taxpayers through the re-distribution of wealth.....unless you're illegal, of course.

Originally Posted by ShockedinCalifornia

Meanwhile here in America, the Obama regime and their fellow travelers in the mainstream media are busy controlling the news from our southern border and using their power and influence to prevent the state of Arizona from taking badly needed steps to protect their citizens.

Gibbs takes every available piece of border and illegal immigration news and converts it to an Obama con-game message. You can actually watch him as he creates the wall of lies while standing at the microphone, silently patting himself on the back for what a whiz of a con-artist he is.

The leftist newspapers and TV stations add their own layers of double-warp onto the Obama hype and proceed to brainwash and mislead the public even further.

No wonder people don't trust their government and its Media Tools anymore. They're nothing but a bunch of lopsided heavy-handed cheating controllers out to steal from the taxpayers through the re-distribution of wealth.....unless you're illegal, of course.

Also found out that Rockefeller has controlling stock interest in ABC, NBC and CBS. Which also includes many other major media corporations. while I don't know whether of not Zeta's ever invaded a rance, I do see that the MSM is having some kind of black on news stories of border violence..

I saw on a local fox channel on the border last night a story about police and drug gang wars going on in Reynosa last night. It was unbelievable the amount of smoke and the amount of gun fire going on. It sounded like the New Years Eve in a Hispanic community in the USA. Machine guns, grenades, it was incredible. Yet, nothign on the MSM. It's liek it never happened.

bigtex wrote,

Also found out that Rockefeller has controlling stock interest in ABC, NBC and CBS. Which also includes many other major media corporations.

Even though I wish not to partake in the MSM complex, or try to boycott as much as possible by not watching TV, I still recieve and thereby help to reinforce these media outlets by listening to the radio, and consuming some on the internet. Is the day here, or near, when I will not have a choice?

Originally Posted by roundabout

bigtex wrote,

Also found out that Rockefeller has controlling stock interest in ABC, NBC and CBS. Which also includes many other major media corporations.

Even though I wish not to partake in the MSM complex, or try to boycott as much as possible by not watching TV, I still recieve and thereby help to reinforce these media outlets by listening to the radio, and consuming some on the internet. Is the day here, or near, when I will not have a choice?

Yes I fear that there is much information out there that our time to educate ourselves and share what we have learned as well as use this medium to organize in our own defense may very well come to an end in the near future. Lately I notice that even Google is not my friend and one has to be tricky to find current news, except in certain cases like ObombUS's recent pronouncement about helping veteran's with their healthcare - the text of that speech came up quickly, unlike anything else.

Glibbs of course will have a Chinese style spin for our harmonious society.