Don't Blame the People.

Don't Blame the People. by Cirino, Robert. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780394717883.

Robert Cirino brings to light how the news media have manipulated attitudes toward the war in Vietnam, pollution, population increase, minorities, dissenters, car safety, the hazards of smoking, hunger in America, abortion and venereal disease - not to serve liberal causes, but to serve mass medias and the corporate establishments own profit-making and political interests. For this reason the author blames the news media, not the people, for the mistaken priorities and policies that have made America unneccessarily pay so high a price in lives, resources, environmental quality and world-wide respect. He argues that the most effective way of preventing the manipulation of public attitudes and the disastrous policies that result is to all viewpoints on the political spectrum - including the far left and the far right - to have an equal opportunity to present the news through societys major communication channels.