The telescreen watches you at all times

The Bush administration recently instructed US government agencies to ignore a ruling by the comptroller general of the United States barring the dissemination of 'covert' propaganda.

They were discovered to have been making and trying to broadcast 'fake' news programmes to the American public, and without stating anywhere on the broadcasts that they were made by the Government. This is blatant propaganda in its most deadly form.

Television, as anyone knows, has more power to educate than schools. A recent mention of sexually transmitted diseases/infections on 'Hollyoaks' had more teenagers visiting their local clinic to check for chlamydia than with any 'Government initiative' (now there's a contradiction in terms).

What better way to mis-educate the masses than to disseminate fictional information via programmes on the television. Worse because these were News programmes.

Giant corporations control all the television networks, while a few major conglomerates have systematically consolidated their grip over virtually all the countries newspapers. Corporate interests predominate from top to bottom, while the media has spawned a caste of multi-millionaire” 'personalities' whose fortunes are directly tied to their connections with the leading figures in the government and big business.

This is the objective environment that facilitates the Bush administration’s employment of the type of “covert propaganda” techniques against the American people that in an earlier epoch were reserved for the use of the CIA in destabilising foreign governments.

The Bush administration has always devoted enormous resources to the manipulation of visual images and the propagation of political slogans designed to advance and mask its predatory policies. The increasing turn toward the blatant methods of phony news reports, paid-off commentators and operatives posing as reporters, however, is characteristic of a regime in crisis, one which desperately fears that if the extent of its crimes becomes known, it will face uncontrollable political upheavals.

Solution: Stop watching so much fucking television!!