 In this February 14, 2008 photo, James J. Lee protests in front of the HQ of Discovery networks in Maryland, U.S. Lee took three people hostage in the company's HQ on Wednesday, before being shot dead by police. |
In the Radical Honesty SA Amicus Curiae to the Constitutional Court (PDF), which calls for a Population Policy Common Sense Interpretation of the TRC Act, it argues amongst others that the Mainstream Media act as Access to Discourse Gatekeeper Censors. They censor people's non-violent political grievances and problem solving activism and by doing so facilitate a pressure cooker socio-political reality for their ‘If it Bleads, it Leads’ corporate propaganda profits, from violence, in knowledge application of:
- ‘As long as there is some possibility of getting results by political means, the chances that any political group or individual will turn violent are truly radically small, or maybe vanishingly small’ (Clark McCauley, Ph.D, Prof. of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College, in When Does Political Anger Turn to Violence?, by Benedict Carey, New York Times, March 26, 2010);
- ‘The exposure in the media is what gets people’s attention. People follow what is happening in the news, not what is happening in the courts’ (Jean Pierre Mean, Group General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, SGS Group, In Confronting Corruption: The Business Case for an Effective Anti-Corruption Programme, by PricewaterhouseCoopers Intnl [PDF];
- ‘[Editors] abuse of media power, by means of strategies whereby they abuse public discourse/free speech resources; by providing certain parties with preferential and special access to such public discourse, and severely restricting or denying others any access to such public discourse (Power and the news media, Teun A. van Dijk, Univ. of Amsterdam, D. Paletz (Ed.), Political Communication & Action. (pp. 9-36). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1995);
