Salon has no credibility.
I was in Russia for the first time in 1992. It was amazing to see what Communism (socialism on steroids).
Many people were walking around like zombies. There were incapable of thinking for themselves. Alcoholism was rampant. Nothing produced was of any value.
Things have gotten much better after 20 years, but it will take another 20 years before the country is caught up with the West.
Anyone who has experienced this would be insane to support Obama and his minions.
>> “erased corporate control,”
And sketch in iron-fisted fairness.
If one looks at the Mission of Truth Revolt and its principals, he/she would see many younger Bill Ayers and confused, demented white boys.
Will they get it right this time?
You gotta figure that after, what, a thousand tales, odds gotta be this time it comes up heads.
Have at it.
For the life of me I can’t understand how the other channels stay alive.
Kill news off comoletely
96% of all union jobs are gubmint.,
We’ll learn how mentally ill they are if they are allowed to be architects, when they are mere brick layers...
That would be a child that only a mother could love. While we have whackos on our end of the political scale (by probability), they do not get any publicity until they actually act out. The left celebrates its extremists as prophets of a golden age and promised land.
I need tell none of my fellow FReepers that this ‘Utopia’ is actually a distopia, a society that would crush the spirit and mind to achieve a momentary goal and then fail the society completely. Somehow I see Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” as a predecessor and the millions of deaths along with the follow-on power struggles and recriminations that led to the “Cultural Revolution” as being a sign post on the road that should not be taken.
Ah Well, these idiots always see a field of greener grass on the other side of the road and say to the naive and gullible, “This time we will get it right!” WRONG!
Some animals are more equal than other animals.
Well, so much for any of that First Amendment nonsense!
The one that comes up through the struggle and becomes wealthy has every right to feel important about him or herself
The one that dreams of being powerful and only he or she is capable for that power is another.
The article is projecting.
What socialism does it makes children out of adults. Israel found out that immigrants from socialist countries like the Soviet Union had the hardest time adapting to freedom. Everything was done for them in the SU. They were treated like children and told what to do and when to do it. The free enterprise system demands that you act as an adult.
None of these communist dreamers ever see themselves cleaning out a socialist stable or unplugging a sewage line. They always see themselves in charge
Ummmm... We already have the freedom and ability to choose whats in the news. I don’t watch any of it and read what I want on the Internets.
Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom showed the fallacy of that idea a long time ago.
The conservative rebuttal to this goes from the opposite direction: that the MSM has effectively become an oligopoly of about a dozen corporations, who organizationally are both vertical and horizontal monopolies.
That they have tiny amounts of competition does not make them competitive. So what is needed is to “anti-trust” these media companies to force competition.
The Federal Communications Commission used to have a powerful rule in place limiting individual media market domination by one or a few companies. That is, companies were limited in how many TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, etc., they could own or control in a single market.
But right now these dozen companies control the whole range of entertainment.
“Globally, large media conglomerates include Viacom, CBS Corporation, Time Warner, News Corporation, Bertelsmann AG, Sony, Comcast, Vivendi, Televisa, The Walt Disney Company, Hearst Corporation, Organizações Globo and Lagardère Group.
“As of 2012, The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the US, with News Corporation, Time Warner and Viacom ranking second, third and fourth respectively.”
So from the conservative point of view, breaking up this oligopoly and limiting growth, either vertical or horizontal, in media companies, would promulgate vastly more free speech and points of view to be aired.
I like to compare it to the breakup of AT&T, which in retrospect was essential for technical growth in the US across a huge band of communications. AT&T was “stuck in the 1960s”, and was a log-jam to innovation.
And there are still people who bemoan the end of that monopoly. For why, I have no idea.
This sounds a lot like the catchphrases used in the old USSR. The workers would collectively and individually own and control the means of production... eventually, after they were guided by the Party for an indeterminate number of generations. And, the guidance was in fact enhanced by the state-controlled organs of propaganda.
No thanks.
