1 00:00:10,950 --> 00:00:26,840 I am as mad as hell,and I am not going to take this anymore 2 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,000 Very angry words uttered by Howard Bealein The Network 3 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:33,780 a black comedy film that won major prizes 4 00:00:34,180 --> 00:00:36,200 Are you similarly angry?If not,you should be. 5 00:00:37,780 --> 00:00:42,600 ‘Freedom is slavery.Ignorance is strength.War is peace 6 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,900 With the complements of the Ministry of Truth.(George Orwell:1984) 7 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:49,500 Do these slogans sound familiar? 8 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:51,920 If you imagine that such madness exists only 9 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,100 in an Owellian nightmarish world,you will need to reconsider, 10 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,640 particularly when you hear phrases like ‘friendly fire’ 11 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,000 which was first used by American television and subsequently 12 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:03,840 by all world televisions 13 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:08,700 The phrase refers to armies mistakenly killing their own soldiers 14 00:01:09,180 --> 00:01:10,960 They are said to be killed by ‘friendly fire’. 15 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:12,960 Such phrases are used with a smile 16 00:01:13,100 --> 00:01:17,280 by men wearing smart suits and pretty women announcers. 17 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,950 If the lies advanced by the media do not drive you mad 18 00:01:21,100 --> 00:01:23,300 then remember George Orwell’s words 19 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,380 Only the proletariat have retained their mental faculties 20 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,520 as they have not understood the great mass of rubbish and lies they are fed. 21 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,900 They swallow it like a finch swallowing a corn seed 22 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,720 but discharges I t without digesting it’ 23 00:01:38,020 --> 00:01:42,960 The overwhelming majority of the world population are just like this little bird 24 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,100 In 1983,fifty major companies controlled 25 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:48,920 ninety percent of the world media 26 00:01:49,580 --> 00:01:51,000 Is that a fair percentage?Well 27 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:53,940 today only six companies control the world media 28 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:55,880 Is this hard to believe? 29 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,320 People tend to think that companies lix Fox,Wall Street Journal 30 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,900 Journal and New York Post are independent,but they all belong to NewsCorp. 31 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,100 In short,we may say that CBS,Time Warner,Viacom,Disney 32 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,980 News Corp and GE control ninety percent of the word media 33 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:11,960 I do not mean they control the news 34 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,000 but all the media outpu 35 00:02:13,180 --> 00:02:16,020 including films,documentaries,publications,etc 36 00:02:17,860 --> 00:02:19,140 If we focus our attention on television 37 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,140 we realize that these companies control seventy percent of cablechannels 38 00:02:23,940 --> 00:02:29,320 The remaining thirty percent are owned by 3,762 companies 39 00:02:29,940 --> 00:02:31,700 Does this alter our image of the media? 40 00:02:31,980 --> 00:02:36,800 Those major companies make annual profits in excess of 250 billiondollars 41 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,800 No wonder,then that AOL paid as much as 162 billion dollar to buy TimeWarner 42 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:47,880 The figure is more than six times the amount approved by Congress forreconstruction in Iraq 43 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,840 In the United States,there are 232 media executives 44 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,820 who control what all 277 million American receive on the media 45 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:02,840 This works out as one media executive for every 850,000 Americans 46 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,360 Are you interested to know under who you happento be? 47 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:08,820 We are not trying to persuade you to turn a deaf ear 48 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,920 and a blind eye to the media 49 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:12,680 or to answer the lies and fabrications 50 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:13,600 that the media circulate day and night 51 00:03:13,940 --> 00:03:18,420 Since lies will never stop,answering them isan endless exercise. 52 00:03:18,940 --> 00:03:21,420 However,they accuse Islam of humiliating women 53 00:03:21,940 --> 00:03:24,420 when sexual harassment and rape are ever in creasing 54 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,420 in the Western world which boasts of being progressive and civilised. 55 00:03:29,940 --> 00:03:31,920 They level at Islam the charge of ill-treating wives 56 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,420 when many a talk show in Europe and the US 57 00:03:33,940 --> 00:03:37,420 give airtime to women with black eyes caused by a husband or a boyfriend 58 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,420 Each time,the story is followed by a stereotype discussion 59 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,420 that yields no results 60 00:03:43,940 --> 00:03:46,920 Yet the notion prevails that Muslim women arebadly treated. 61 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,420 There is a simple solution for everyone 62 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,920 who wishes to abandon the stage of finch that cannot digest a corn seed 63 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,200 and rise to the rank of a rational human being who examines what he is told 64 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,600 To begin with,two things are needed 65 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,800 the first is to sober up so that we cannot be deceived by a handful of people 66 00:04:04,940 --> 00:04:10,500 The second is to undertake one’s own research,using those grey cells in our brains 67 00:04:10,700 --> 00:04:12,200 When we do that 68 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,000 we shall make the same angry outburst as Howard Beale 69 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,980 But then we will be free.