Letter: Revolutionary truth

Editor, Daily News:

Thank God for the "blogosphere."

When large corporations control the media, an iron curtain descends over the Fourth Estate. Our precious freedoms are then in danger of being usurped by the tyranny of misinformation. If we are deceived as a result, we are less likely to resist the tide. Thus, we are led to believe the untruths that are spread among us.

Conservative talk radio aids and abets their cause with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and their cohorts. In other words, we have been, and are being, brainwashed daily — hence, the ill-advised venture into Iraq.

Meanwhile, Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson are castigated by the likes of Judy Miller, Robert Novak, Scooter Libby and Karl Rove because they have the temerity to tell the truth. Behind the scenes, Vice President Cheney is calling the shots. Thank God also for those honest Republicans who have seen through the deceptions and are rebelling against this kind of leadership.

Thanks also to C-Span, CNN, public radio and television and others who speak out. In China, they censor the Internet. Fortunately, that has not yet occurred here. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

To paraphrase George Orwell ("1984"), "When deceit is in control of the land, the truth becomes revolutionary."

Stanley Tralins , Naples