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westexas on October 3, 2007 - 11:17am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I was thinking about this topic this morning. When Jim Kunstler was in Dallas for a joint presentation with Matt Simmons, on 11/1/05, I arranged a meeting with the Dallas Morning News editorial board, and I sat in on the meeting. Jim spoke with them for an hour, laying out "The Long Emergency" case.

Except for the local NPR station and the SMU student newspaper, we had a local media blackout regarding the Simmons/Kunstler event, and there was no reference in the paper to the hour long interview with Jim.

I think that they are ignoring the issue, to the extent they can, not because they dispute the reality of finite resources. I think that they are ignoring the issue because they are afraid that Jim is right. For the overall population, it's the "Sixth Sense" thing. Our old way of life is dead, but most of us don't know it--primarily because we only see what we want to see.

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Samsara on October 3, 2007 - 1:29pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

... we had a local media blackout ...

WT, I think the BEST example of the MSM IronTriangle is the new's reporting of Myanmar.

Look at the difference between MSM's coverage of the story,

Myanmar junta continues to make arrests
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071003/ts_nm/myanmar_new_dc

Soldiers hunt dissidents in Myanmar
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071003/ap_on_re_as/myanmar

versus this one

Chevron’s Pipeline Is the Burmese Regime’s Lifeline

http://tinyurl.com/2wsq9x

or this one.

Oil versus monks
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C10%5C03%5Cstory_3-1...

The Energy Angle is buried in the details.

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