>>The reality is that just 6 gigantic corporations collectively own most of the major mainstream media outlets in this country. Reporters are simply not going to be allowed to report stories that are severely damaging to those corporations or to the owners of those corporations.
Liberals have said this for years, actually. This segment of Robert Smigel’s “TV’s Funhouse” on “Saturday Night Live”
allegedly aired just once...turned out NBC was not pleased
that the “Schoolhouse Rock” spoof (complete with the same singer from that ABC kids’ feature) pointed out that companies like GE, which owned NBC, put out dangerous PCBs and the network was controlling news coverage in a bit of
“spin”. Lorne Michaels claimed the segment didn’t air again due to the fact that “it wasn’t funny”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3JLKw0q4kY
(The same show once employed Al Franken who doomed himself by a bit called “Limo for the Lame-o”, in which he mentioned
NBC’s sagging ratings and he wondered why prez Fred
Silverman got to have a limo despite this. Franken got fired for “biting the hand that fed him”...)
oops, my facts were slightly wrong on last one. Wikipedia:
>>Franken’s most notorious SNL performance may have been “A Limo for the Lame-O,” a commentary he delivered near the end of the 1979–80 season during a Weekend Update segment. Franken mocked controversial NBC president Fred Silverman as “a total unequivocal failure” and displayed a chart showing the poor ratings of NBC programs. Franken proclaimed that Silverman did not deserve a limousine. As a result of this sketch, Silverman refused Lorne Michaels’ request that Franken succeed him as SNL’s head producer, prompting Franken to leave the show when Michaels did, at the end of the 1979–80 season.