[Reader-list] I used to trust the media to tell me the truth

[Sunil Abraham]

This photograph
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/baghdad.html
Reminded me of a band that I used to overplay in college...QueensRyche.
Come to think of it the song is 15 years old but still very relevant. 

Highlights:

"I used to trust the media to tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?"

"I used to think that only America's way, way was right
But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives
Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies"

The complete lyrics is quoted below

Thanks,

Sunil

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http://www.queensryche.com/releases/operation-mindcrime/index.html
REVOLUTION CALLING - QueensRyche [1988]
For a price I'd do about anything except pull the trigger
For that I'd need a pretty good cause
Then I heard of Dr. X, the man with the cure
Just watch the television... Yeah, you'll see there's something going on

Got no love for politicians, Or that crazy scene in D.C.
It's just a power mad town
But the time is ripe for changes, There's a growing feeling
That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due

I used to trust the media to tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

Revolution calling, Revolution calling, Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling, Revolution calling
Gotta make a change, gotta push, gotta push it on through

I'm tired of all this bullshit they keep selling me on T.V. About the
communist plan
And all the shady preachers begging for my cash
Swiss bank accounts while giving their secretaries the slam

They're all in Penthouse now or Playboy magazine, million dollar stories
to tell
I guess Warhol wasn't wrong fame fifteen minutes long
Everyone's using everybody, making the sale

I used to think that only America's way, way was right
But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives
Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies

Revolution calling, Revolution calling, Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling, Revolution calling
Gotta make a change, Gotta push, gotta push it on through

I used to trust the media to tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

Revolution calling, Revolution calling, Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling, Revolution calling
Gotta make a change, Gotta push, gotta push it on through
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-- 
Sunil Abraham, CEO
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'Reducing the cost and complexity of ICTs'
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