Posted on 10/02/2012 6:02:47 AM PDT by Lakeshark
Good post. I think the media betting the farm on the Democrat party shutting down all other news source competition, before they become irrelevant. With internet speech police “deeming” (remember “deeming” the health care bill passed?) conservative commentary or accurate news hate speech, the old media will be in a position of absolute power. There is a sinister agenda at work here to make sure that there is only one outlet of propaganda. Let’s not forget that all this has been proven to work in the past in countless other examples of communism take overs. The battle field has changed dramatically on both sides. They have the IRS, electronics, guns, drones, satellites.. you name anything that’s powerful enough to reduce you to ruble, and they have it. On the other side, the Conservatives have what’s the equivalent to the ink printing press, only many order of magnitudes bigger and louder than the town paper. If you believe in the saying “The pen is mightier than the sword”, then the real fight is which side has the biggest pen. The communists are the favored bet because they have hundreds of years of practice when it comes to ruthless decimation of opposition. We shall see.
Lockstep media..."Hail Hussein!"
>>>They remain the gatekeepers of recruiting and hiring in the news business and enforce political conformity with an iron hand.<<<<
In case you think Brad is hyperbolic, I was in the print media for about 20 years, from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. He understates the circumstances.
Thanks. I was there too. I call the takeover “The Revenge of the Nerds.”
bttt
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