This is already on his Transform America plan, right after nationalizing health care.
very little thought or effort in their ideas
There’s no point in nationalizing businesses that are willing to do what the gummint wants done for free. FNC is only a little better than the rest.
I have a better idea. Let’s move all socialists to countries like Venezuela where they can live in the type of ‘utopia’ they want to force on the rest of us.
FOX be used like in The Truman Show, with Ø in the role of Truman Burbank. Except, of course, he knows he’s on live TV all the time, and loves it. It would be beamed across the globe, with appropriate ad placements to pay for it [operators are standing by...]. The Foremost Mission of NASA would be changed once again, from muslim outreach, to sole coverage of FOXHaven, as the network gets a fresh name.
The Mooch playing the role of Meryl, naturally. Reggie Love as Sylvi... I mean Lauren.
How is it going to End?
The author and commenters muze on what the media would look like if there were no money involved. Several observations.
The NYT is presumably operating on that basis. Money can’t be an issue to them, since it hasn’t made a profit in years. Ditto CNN, MSNBC if viewer numbers mean anything.
Nothing is stopping him or his commenters from going out there, for free and for gratis, and setting the world straight. Likewise on healthcare. Take the money out of it. Go for it, dude. Just do it for free. Nobody is stopping you and your ilk.
I can’t believe someone this stupid was given any platform to write this nonsense.
Thesis (Part “A”)... That the Media is corporate-driven. OK, I buy that bit from Salon Magazine. But their thesis should include the fact the THE VAST MAJORITY of corporations share Salon’s liberal world view. Instead they focus on Ruppert Murdoch & Fox News... who are the exception to the rule.
its not news that the major US media are run by and for big business.
Your point? I suggest you move to a third world country and try to be happy there.
Surprise. Surprise. The only news outlet that needs to be nationalized is Fox - all of the others are already on their side.
Please tell me where that has happened. I am not aware of any truly Socialist country where the people actually rule, only some oligarchy pretending to be "working people".
Liberals truly believe in pie-in-the-sky, it's what keeps their rank-and-file in line.
So he doesn’t like the media being controlled by big, evil corporations and would rather it be ran by the government.....who is controlled by the big, evil corporations?
Imagine Pravda.
You know I’d rather imagine leftists learning from history, but I’m not holding my breath.
I thought that 5 times a day, we could all face in the direction of Washington, DC and bow and pray 5 times daily.
Typical. Can’t hope to compete so, have the government take them over and demand that they spread the “correct” propaganda. Gee, how original.
The rulers of a socialist state must live in terror of the people. By the logic of their actions and their teachings, the boiling, seething resentment of the people should well up and swallow them in a orgy of bloody vengeance. The rulers sense this, even if they do not admit it openly; and thus, their major concern is always to keep the lid on the citizenry.
If the government owns all the newspapers and publishing houses, if it decides for what purposes newsprint and paper are to be made available, then obviously nothing can be printed which the government doesn't want printed.
But socialism goes far beyond the mere lack of freedom of the press. It totally annihilates these freedoms. It turns the press and every public forum into a vehicle of hysterical propaganda in its own behalf, and it engages in the relentless persecution of everyone who dares to deviate by so much as an inch from its official party line.
So, you are concerned about big corporate entities controlling news. Therefore, your solution is to create one big corporate entity that controls everything. Socialist logic.