To the Frontline and Back

"Traveling across the mainstream American corporate-state television broadcast spectrum with an eye for the sickening truth of United States policy is like watching the stars for certain astronomical occurrences," Paul Street writes in a searing essay on the recent Frontline documentary, "The Invasion of Iraq."

"Most of your time is spent peering into the vapid abyss of nothingness," he continues. "When you do get a glimmer, you'd better look closely, you'd better look fast, and you need the right equipment to identify, record, and interpret what you're seeing. It's over before you know it, the meaning often unclear, as the corporate-state communications universe returns to its normal state of dull, monotonic, power- and privilege-friendly thought-control."