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Tag Archives: Lewis Powell Memo
The Powell Manifesto Realized: The Shocking 1971 Republican Blueprint To Eliminate Liberalism And Establish Corporate Domination Over America’s Pillars Of Democracy
It’s called the Lewis Powell Memo (aka The Powell Manifesto) written in 1971, before he became a Supreme Court Justice and went on to write a 1978 decision that effectively invented a First Amendment “right” for corporations to influence ballot … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa
Tagged Lewis Powell Memo, Republican fear of liberalism, Republican strategy, The Trump presidency
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Jen Senko: How Right Wing Media Has Divided The Country And What We Must Do
See my post earlier this week Movie Review: The Brainwashing of My Dad, the documentary by Jen Senko about losing her father to right wing media. Also on Blog for Iowa see the list of the thirteen Iowa commercial radio … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Media Bias
Tagged Fox News, Jen Senko, Lewis Powell Memo, Putting the GOP on TV, right wing propaganda machine, The Brainwashing of My Dad
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The GOP, Corporate America, And The Powell Manifesto
Progressives and others have been going wild this week over a Rick Santorum remark denegrating college education, basing his statement on something that President Obama didn’t even say. It is time for us to get over being shocked by every “crazy” … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Greed, GOP
Tagged Chamber of Commerce, GOP, Lewis Powell Memo, rick santorum
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Observations on the Media in Iowa: A Brief History of Consolidation
by Dave Bradley When we left last week, I had asked that you read the Lewis Powell memo that became the catalyst for the right wing (or as Paul Krugman refers to them – the movement conservatives) to begin a … Continue reading
Posted in Main Page
Tagged FCC, Lewis Powell Memo, media reform, Telecommunications Act of 1996
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