Annie Delia Media Ethics Essay The Bilderberg Group

Every year since 1954, a 130 of the worlds most elite, powerful and wealthy come together for a private meeting to discuss what is called The New World Order. They call themselves The Bilderberg Group. The Bilderbergs are a group of capitalists making decisions that affect the lives of millions of people in private with no democratic control. Only one in five thousand people even knows the Bilderberg Group exists. Some people would say it was a conspiracy theory when in fact the members are really the conspirers. Every U.S. president since Eisenhower has belonged to the Bilderberg Group as well as principle members of the British, Canadian and European Governments. Hillary and Bill Clinton attend, as does the ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair. The highest members of the British, Canadian and European governments attend meetings. Keith B. Alexander, Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, Director of the National Security Agency, Roger Altman, investment banker, former U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, Geeorgio A. Arapoglou, Governor of National Bank of Greece, Henri de Castries, President of AXA, the French global insurance companies group Juan Luis Cebrin, journalist for Grupo PRISA, W. Edmund Clark, Canada CEO TD Bank Financial Group, Timothy Geithner, United States Secretary of the Treasury Al Greenspan the former Chairman of The Federal Reserve, Henry Paulson Jr., The Secretary of Treasury, Microsoft Billionaire Bill Gates, Google CEO Eric Schmidt. But

the Bilderbergs most valuable members are those who control what you watch, what you read and what you know. Donald Graham, CEO and chairman of the board of The Washington Post, Will Hutton, former CEO of The Work Foundation and editor-in-chief for The Observer, George Stephanopoulos, ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent, David Rockefeller, Conrad Black, Rupert Murdoch amongst many other media barons. United they own or indirectly own all of the major news media in the world. Thus controlling virtually every segment of the media industry. In more than fifty years of meetings, the press has never been allowed to attend, no statements have ever been released on the attendees conclusions, nor has any agenda for the Bilderberg meetings been made public. The mainstream press is owned by the Bilderbergs so their meetings are absent from the media. . The Bilderberg Group goes through many extremes to keep the their meetings from being covered by press although the mainstream media doesnt even appear to try. Those journalists who have attempted to cover the meetings are either stonewalled or arrested by the countries army. The Bilderbergs invitation only guest list is kept confidential although the guest list is usually broadcast on the Internet by an anonymous source. The meeting follows Chatham House Rule which means there is not quoting, thus allowing members to speak freely, Confidential minutes of the meeting are taken, no names are used and every attendee is required to take an oath of silence. Members

of the Bilderberg Group have acknowledged that the meeting exists and deny they are in secret although they intentionally block information from the media. The Bilderbergs Groups main agenda an ulterior motive is to establish a one world government with one set of universal rules. They call this The New World Order. The New World Order has been masterminded for the sole purpose of benefiting the already rich and powerful. They will establish one set of universal values and no others will be allowed to flourish in the future. The plans for The New World Order include one single global marketplace that is policed by one world army. The banks would be financially regulated by one World Bank and would be enabled to tax all world citizens in an effort to eliminate the middle class. The ultimate goal being that society would consist of the rich and the slaves. The Bilderbergs envision a socialist welfare state where the slaves will be rewarded and the non-conformists targeted for extermination. Their strategic plan for developing the New World Order include creating a Centralized Control of People, where through mind control all of humanity will obey their wishes. To help the process they will create a State of Perpetual Imbalance that will put continuous physical, mental and emotional stress on people to the point that they will be to worn out to determine their own destiny. The plan for The New World Order explains the desire for such secrecy. But why the media blackout? In more than fifty years no press has ever been allowed to attend the meetings, no statements have ever been released nor has any agenda for a Bilderberg meeting been made public. Coincidentally many major news figures and publicly trusted journalists have attended as non-reporters. These journalists

we trust to seek the truth and deliver the news are actually manipulating the truth and brainwashing the dumb-downed public. It is the job of these people to sell the American public on the merits of The New World Order agenda. David Rockefeller from the famous Rockefeller family and longtime, proud member of the Bilderberg Group publicly thanked the press in 1991 he said, "We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries." The mainstream corporate media are empowered and have the ability to frame political issues in order to advance The World Order message. Privately owned news media promote the economic and political interests of the large companies that advertise with them all of to whom belong to The Bilderberg Party. This brings up the issue of ethics in the media and the conclusion is that none exist. The Bilderberg Group has exhausted the media of all truth, ethics and integrity. They are liars, they are scared and they are puppets whose strings are being pulled by the most powerful people in the world. The thought that everything that we believe to be true is really just a manipulation of the truth and isnt even our own beliefs but what the media wants us to believe is terrifying. It is so terrifying

that most people would even be able to fathom the idea, let alone believe it. The media has no credibility and even to pretend that there are even media ethics to discuss is a joke. The Bilderberg Group does not practice universal law they are not concerned about what is good for the majority of the population, but the media will make you believe that they do. The Authoritarian Theory supports and advances the policies of the government and in this case to support The New World Order. The publics right to know means nothing to the media owners that control all of the new stations, newspapers and other media outlets. They tell the media what they can and cannot report on. They determine which persons, which facts and which version of those facts shall reach the public. The form of control the government has on its media is the same as the control it has on its people. Those cannot be differentiated from each other. The once great protector of the First Amendment has been transformed into the oppressor of free speech. Free speech no longer exists and the rulers control the press and censor the content to ensure the promotion of the interests of those in power. In this theory, media is to obey and not question the rulers moral or political values because this could lead to censorship. Under this theory a journalist could be prosecuted for practicing his right of free speech, if that free speech criticizes authority or provides the public with information that the rulers dont want them to have. Since 1954 the Bilderberg Group has controlled the media. People believe what they are told by the media and according to the Social Responsibility Theory,

the people are very unlikely to seek the truth. Instead they passively accept what they see, hear and feel. The public has been brainwashed by the use of propaganda and trained not to question what they are told to be the truth. It was Hitler who introduced propaganda and he who believed, that all propaganda should be popular and should adapt its intellectual level to the receptive ability of the least intellectual of those whom it is desired to address. That sounds like similar beliefs to that of the Bilderberg Group. The Social Responsibility Theory suggests that there is a free market place of ideas that coincides with capitalism and free-enterprise systems. There is no freeenterprise without the free market place of ideas and without free-enterprise there is no free press. Social Responsibility Theory can only take place within a government that has a constitution and a bill of rights. We are made to believe that the media practices The Social Responsibility Theory, the public trusts the media and are mislead to believe that the media acts and practices the right of free press and that no government, agency or group has any control on what they report. Socialist Responsibility theory allows the media to report analyze, explain and interpret the news to the public so that public discussion and the motivation to seek the truth exist and can continue to be the foundations to uphold democracy. It is the publics right to know if the most influential people in the world are getting together to discuss world issues. It is the medias responsibility to provide a more alert element and informed populace is the cornerstone of democracy. It is journalists right to exercise the first amendment and report on these issues and it is their social responsibility to inform the public.

The idea that the media operates on the theory of Social Responsibility is false although the public is conditioned to believe otherwise. The media is and always has been victims of Authoritarian Theory. It would be redundant to list or mention all of the things that are unethical about the mainstream media in the world today. There is no solid answer, no ethical solution to this matter. The reality is that the situation cannot be rectified with the application of a simple theory because how do you theorize something when everything you believed to be true is in fact false. Until those individuals or groups behind the media develop a sense of ethics, there will be no media ethics to worry about.