“Setting up the loom to weave cloth is a process which requires great patience as well as careful planning, concentration and plenty of time.”
Posted on 03/29/2013 7:03:29 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Breitbart knew instinctively, as people in Washington, D.C., and most other places did not, that movies, television programs and popular music send out deeply political messages every hour of every day. They shape the culture, and then the culture shapes politics. Influence those films and TV shows and songs, and you'll eventually influence politics. -- Byron York
As I documented in Know Thy Enemy II, The Media, one of Conservatives’ most formidable enemies is the Hollywood-Big Media Cartel. It is an irrefutable fact of life: this infotainment complex defines pop culture and permeates every aspect of modern life. Nothing short of the state sponsored educational indoctrination system even comes close to the impact it has on how America thinks and lives. Today we look at what can be done to loosen that grip.
The Big Media Cartel is run by leftist ideologues who believe their province extends far beyond simply informing and entertaining. With ideological messages embedded in everything from songs to sitcoms, citizens receive continuous reinforcement of leftist precepts. If you’re skeptical, Ben Shapiro’s book, Prime Time Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story, will disabuse you of any doubt.
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Big Media is a tough nut to crack. Tougher even then the education system since at least in theory we the people own our schools. Here we’re dealing with a huge, private sector entertainment oligopoly which exists with the tacit approval and support of government administrators, legislators and regulators. It enjoys significant tax breaks, subsidies and multiple regulatory protections, yet is not answerable to the taxpayer. Their only responsibility is to their shareholders, consumers and, marginally, the FCC. The shareholders are happy as long as they are making money; consumers seem inured to the liberal messaging as long as Desperate Housewives airs in it’s expected timeslot and the FCC concerns itself primarily with wardrobe malfunctions and hate-speech; so there’s no pushback.
We have reached a place where one ideology (liberal) controls virtually all pop culture output; and so many people have already been indoctrinated by leftist precepts that they don't even see a problem. That is why, prior to his untimely death, Andrew Brietbart warned people over and over that “the Media is the enemy.”
There are two ways to attack the mediacracy1 - from outside the tent, and from inside the tent. We need to operate in both theatres of operation but we begin from the outside since that’s where most of us reside. From this front, all of us can do something to advance the cause.
If you are a stockholder, divest. If you are a consumer, don’t go to that movie or buy the DVD, don’t watch the Sunday “news” shows – or any MSM news shows for that matter. If you find a show (or an entire Network) to contain offensive messaging, switch the channel, turn off the TV, write to the sponsors to complain about the content they’re supporting and let them know you won’t buy their products.
Because network/cable television is still ad-revenue driven, enough people complaining to sponsors and boycotting their products will have an effect. But for maximum impact remember to take your clues from the left: organized protests and boycotts by special interest groups get greater and faster results than do individual complaints. While the left invented professional grievance squads, the right has a surprising number of special interest groups (SIG) of their own that can be culled and employed for this purpose. (Note: it was the Veterans of Foreign Wars who finally wrestled an apology from CBS for its disgraceful Amazing Race incident.)
Nobody has quite gotten behind the “Neilson ratings” Oz curtain to determine how they actually count viewers but as technology progresses it gets creepier every year.
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But with just 6 companies owning all of the entertainment and information venues available on either network or cable TV, “turning the channel” is not much of an option. It just gets you more of the same, only different, as most programing is produced and written by the same kind of people sporting the same leftist ideology. In order to actually change the cultural narrative conservatives need to get their meat hooks into the hindquarter of the media-information-entertainment industry. Exactly why this hasn’t happened yet is, in Facebook parlance, complicated.
Popular culture is owned by the left. It’s not going away and it’s not going to change for the better unless the right becomes more involved in its creation. Initially many conservatives thought that just sitting it out in protest would suffice. In hindsight not only was that foolish, but detrimental. As an ongoing strategy it’s both impractical and counterproductive.
Impractical because, as Mr. Shapiro points out, “TV is awesome!”
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Worse than being impractical though, tuning out is counterproductive. It only ensures that the right will never reclaim the culture from the grasp of relativistic liberalism. In the long war, the left has already won that battle; and we were probably complicit by disengaging even as their talons tightened and sunk deeper into our flesh.
Pop culture has now woven liberal-think so tightly into the fabric of our collective consciousness that the only way to change it is to go back to the same loom and set a new pattern, thread by tedious thread. Just like the liberals did it.
“Setting up the loom to weave cloth is a process which requires great patience as well as careful planning, concentration and plenty of time.”
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Their only responsibility is to their shareholders, consumers and, marginally, the FCC.
The only way to change the leftist culture in the media it to buy that media or build companies that compete with them and defeat them. That sounds pretty hard to me. Not that many Murdochs around and even he is not that great.
Hollywood-Big Media Cartel = Colned Marx
...it all started with the lynching of Anita Bryant.
Then evil doers everywhere knew they were exempt from media scrutiny and could bring anyone down who got in their way.
These people are driven by dogma not profit, look to how gleefully they print money like it doesn’t matter...
...because it doesn’t. They worship ideology and control is their God.
No it isn't.
The easiest and least expensive way is to eliminate the F.C.C.
The F.C.C. is unconstitutional as it gives our government ownership of free speech. How has this worked out? Our media has become a government mouthpiece. The first amendment has been licensed out of existence as it pertains to broadcast media. We must reclaim it by legal recourse.
The easiest and least expensive way is to eliminate the F.C.C.
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Well I’m no fan of the FCC either but eliminating the FCC would have zero impact on the ownership of the major networks. Plus the FCC has no jurisdiction over Hollywood so no help there either.
And note: even with the FCC, Murdoch managed to start up what passes for a conservative news network and a successful one.
We need a few John Galts to stand up and get us our fair share of the MSM.
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