Reported by Toby Morton in "Journal of Left Reportage."

The massive advertising propaganda of doctors, health clinics and HMOs uses buzzwords like "wellness," "long-term care" and "preventive medicine," and the vast majority of medical reporters are content to parrot this party line. But as Morton persuasively demonstrates, good health is often the farthest thing from doctors minds. "If nobody ever got sick, I'd be out of a job," one physician told the reporter.

Reported by Madeline Murray Versace in "The Daily Campaign Worker"

Despite all those high-minded words about the "political discourse," "electoral process" and "campaign finance reform," Big Business continues to do what it does best - show that money talks. "Some of the biggest campaign contributions come not from individual citizens, but from large corporations bent on influencing the votes of elected officials," Versace concluded.

Mainstream media devoted millions of column inches to l'Affaire Lewinsky, without mentioning that in many cases their own parent corporations were throwing money at congressional fatcats.

Reported by Magdelen Gaitskill in "Left Sex Observer"

While the pro-sex establishment touts the party line about "empowerment" of sex industry workers, this investigations proves that a rigidly hierarchical pecking order exists within the pornography/industrial complex. Women find that their careers are essentially over by age 35, and the best positions are still reserved for attractive employees, and those who are willing to "use all their assets." One manager of a prostitution ring told Gaitskill "I'm looking for good looking girls with big tits."

Playboy, Penthouse, and the rest of the multinational sex magazines buried this story with major implications for young people looking to pursue a career in this thriving industry.

Reported by Jurko Tadeusz, in "Left World News"

Listening to Bill Clinton or Madeline Albright tell the story, most Americans believe that they are loved and welcomed by emerging peoples all over the world. Tadeusz reveals the story that the diplomatic/industrial complex has concealed - that while people in other countries may flock to Kiss concerts and gather around their televisions to view Baywatch, they frequently disdain and loathe the American people. "Right now, for example, we're supposed to be doing a favor to the Kosovar Albanians," says expert Buck Revell. "In a couple weeks, I guarantee you, the Kosovars themselves will be burning the American flag. They hate us no matter what we do."

Although the story has major implications for US foreign policy, large corporate media focused most of its attention on the bombing of Iraq, the bombing of Sudan and Afghanistan and the bombing of Yugoslavia. American readers would have no reason to suspect that foreigners may not universally love US citizens.

Reported by Mary Kathleen McConnell, in "New Socialist Religious Observer"

Despite its humanitarian claims, the Roman Catholic Church uses its powerful "bully pulpits" to argue against a woman's right to choose. Some of the most prominent priests in the religious/cultural complex are openly giving anti-abortion sermons every Sunday morning, and legislation to stop this officially sanctioned hate speech remains stalled in Congress. "I'd like to see what Father Julio would say if it was his daughter who accidentally became pregnant," one disgruntled churchgoer commented.

Reported by Ace Frehley, in "Left Military Observer"

Although they clothe their missions in Orwellian euphemisms about "peacekeeping" and "restoring democracy," the US Armed Forces, Frehley reports, are focused on finding new and more efficient ways of killing "enemies" and destroying their equipment. This is practically an open secret within the military/armed forces complex, where officers speak openly of "degrading, diminishing and even destroying" foreign forces.

None of the major corporate media devoted to covering military affairs - Soldier of Fortune, Vietnam War Quarterly, and US News and World Report - consider this major story worthy of any serious coverage.

Reported by Tom Frank in "Socialist Hipster Review"

Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Nike and other major multinational players in the lifestyle/marketing complex make big bucks selling products to younger buyers. But this 600-page multipart investigation reveals that in many cases over-the-hill marketers are openly pandering to young people in an effort to appear "hip" and, as a result, sell their products. "They be trying to act all round and butternut and shit yo," says one teen, "but it's a bunch of northern tubas trying to make salt, you know what I'm sayin'? It's like totally fresno February"

To date, not one of the major media corporations has chosen to investigate. "We just don't think that story's for us," said Modern Maturity editor Haynes Rybeck, when contacted by the Simpleton Censorship Committee.

Reported by Flip Henwood, in "Left Online Report"

You'd never know it from all the glowing stories about the "frictionless economy" and "free flow of information," but many of the web sites you're reading are in the pockets of corporate advertisers. In many cases, web site operators are blatantly ignoring the firewall between advertising and editorial, and frightening total-surveillence technologies - which are called "Cookies" in a transparent effort to make them seem "homey" - watch you as you surf online. "In a lot of cases, some of the blinking graphics you see on web pages aren't just there for decoration - they're advertisements, from people who want you to buy their products," says one online journalist.

Reported by Smokey Kaufman, in "Emphysema and Lung Cancer News"

After decades of dragging their heals, tobacco companies are finally being made to admit that they suppressed findings on the dangers of both cigarette smoke and "second-hand" smoke. But as Kaufman's story points out, the dangers of third-hand smoke have been completely classified by the tobacco/paper complex. Every week, ten thousand teenagers hear somebody talk about some third party's smoking habit - and are immediately hooked. "They don't want you to know that hundreds of thousands of Americans have gotten lung cancer just from seeing cigarettes on TV,[italics added]" says one tobacco company whistle-blower.

Reported by Kevin McCarthy in "Mind Control Times"

As major media falls all over itself praising the latest developments in "pod people" technology, McCarthy demonstrates how the zombie/replicant industry has glossed over issues of groupthink, conformism and irresponsible voting. "Everybody's so happy about how the pod beings are such an easy advertising demographic, and bring down the crime rate," says one civil libertarian, "but they don't mention that they're coming for all of us! You're next!"

Despite a nationwide outbreak of sedated behavior and monotone speech, the major media publications continue to ignore this developing story. As with all the news stories mentioned here, this one has major implications for the future of global democracy.