” but it cannot be ignored that this could not be happening without the express “permission” of this country.”
Actually I would amend my previous comment - this could not happen without the express permission of the Major media, meaning GE, Viacom, Time-Warner, Disney, and the major print conglomerates including Gannett, NYT. While some are losing market share, it seems they just don’t give a damn and they are going to force their political agenda down our throats regardless of what it costs them.
I found a money-quote from 1993’ish regarding the Clinton Healthcare plan on FR recently which summed up the Media coordinated efforts to direct society -
“Senator Rockefeller also suggested news organizations “are anxious and willing to receive guidance [from the Clinton Administration] on how to time and shape their [news] coverage.””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955546/posts
I realize Murdoch has done very well with Fox news, but at the same time I do not believe the media are subject to market forces in terms of the type of control and coordination of the big picture that they exercise.
You clearly have a terrific grasp of this absurd situation, but let me suggest that the media, too, could not be in business without our money and support. They can’t sell it if we don’t buy it. And cumulatively we have bought it all from Fox to CNN to MSNBC to the NYT.... Air time is expensive. When you stop and realize that even Howard Stern has his followers who are willing to pay for his air time, it is an easy jump to accept that the media is getting away with all its manipulations and biases because we let them stay in business. The media wouldn’t exist without its listeners/watchers and if we stopped buying the garbage they sell, politically or otherwise, they’d either be out of business or would have to give up manipulating and start reporting.
You clearly have a terrific grasp of this absurd situation, but let me suggest that the media, too, could not be in business without our money and support. They can’t sell it if we don’t buy it. And cumulatively we have bought it all from Fox to CNN to MSNBC to the NYT.... Air time is expensive. When you stop and realize that even Howard Stern has his followers who are willing to pay for his air time, it is an easy jump to accept that the media is getting away with all its manipulations and biases because we let them stay in business. The media wouldn’t exist without its listeners/watchers and if we stopped buying the garbage they sell, politically or otherwise, they’d either be out of business or would have to give up manipulating and start reporting.