Posted on 10/26/2009 1:50:03 PM PDT by azkathy
SOCIALIST ALERT! SOCIALIST ALERT! INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT MCCHESNEY
In The German Ideology, Marx said the following about the media: “The class which has the means of material production at its disposal has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.” Since Marx’s time, “the means of mental production” in society have expanded into a globalizing capitalist media and cultural industry that encompasses both print and electronic mediums, news and entertainment. The media is a contradictory institution; it is once a means of production and a terrain of struggle. “The class that is the ruling material force of society” continues to rule the media and therefore is a very powerful “ruling intellectual force” in society. Yet, control of the media by the ruling class is being opposed by media democracy struggles. Robert McChesney, eminent historian and political-economist of the media, founder of the Free Press, leading U.S. and international media activist, and author of The Political Economy of the Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas (Monthly Review Press, 2008) and Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of the Media (The New Press, 2008), spoke with Tanner Mirrlees, of the Socialist Project, about contemporary media capitalism and 21st century media democracy struggles to understand and change it. —— Tanner Mirrlees. The Media, the Left and Power TM: Why do you think it is important for progressives to understand the media and participate in media democracy struggles? RM: The media is one of the key areas in society where power is exercised, reinforced and contested.
(Excerpt) Read more at socialistproject.ca ...
EXCERPT BELOW "One of the reasons we’ve been able to win this fight is that most of the new digital capital community is not supportive of the telephone and cable monopolies either. We have been in bed with some media companies that on other issues we are mortal enemies with. For a lot of people on the political Left who practice their politics on a barstool, we’ve committed a high-crime and misdemeanour for building a short-term alliance."
PING!Quoting from the article “We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it. The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the era of digital communications.
quoting “We can seize the policy-making process to democratize and develop a vibrant journalism. We need quality journalism if we want to govern our own lives.”
THIS ARTICLE IS ALL ABOUT THE SOCIALIST PLANS FROM ROBERT MCCHESNEY AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
It is done “interview style” so it is McChesney’s own words.
Qu. “We have been in bed with some media companies that on other issues we are mortal enemies with.”
McChesney goes on to say, “But I’ve learned, by participating in over a decade of specific media struggles, that when you are in the short-term and you are fighting to win, sometimes you make tactical alliances.”
McChesney is an avowed socialist and this tells how they plan to take over and change the media, including the internet!
Political correctness is nothing more than thought control of language.
"Homosexual" is virtually taboo in the press, replaced by "gay". Just one small example.
Tolerance is acceptance.
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