RIP Free Press in U.S. & Democracy With It

[eynon81]

here's how Non sees it.

Corporate America loves the current status-quo.

Corporate America own most media (and all major media).

Major media is Corporate America's PR wing.

Ergo major media exists to defend the status-quo.


There has been a lot of thought behind this, consider the death of the independent news-paper...major brand bought solely to be closed down.

[Indy]

Actually that makes a ton of sense laid out like that.

Nothing insures the status quo like media simply putting us into endless stalemate games with a false choice of left/right, so we don't pay attention to what's really going on. And if anything threatening the status quo should bubble to the top, simply force that into the False Choice Theater, where you can have "both sides" arguing completely opposite courses of action.

End result? No action.

You don't have to kill an idea anymore, just sell people on the idea that half the country opposes it.

[exploited]

Also to be considered: back in the day, people used to read journals provided by unions. You would actually organize around people who shared characteristics with you, and pay to read their biased perspectives. The only people doing that now are Fox News and Indy Media.

[Professor]

[eynon81]

[Indy]

Although I like me some bloody crime stories, if you mean the shows on Investigation Discovery, etc....

[jimmyz]

[Dylan]

[jimmyz]

[Dylan]

That's fair too. "MSM" doesn't work anymore though since Fox is the epitome of mainstream. You guys need a new phrase for the lib media.