Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Liberal Media, my broke ass

I'm getting sick and tired of hearing about the liberal media. There is absolutely no such thing as a liberal media and in fact almost all media is conservative or Republican or more to the point Capitalist. In other words 99.9% of all media is in favor of the rich (Republicans) and diametrically opposed to the poor (Democrats). And if not for the independence of the Internet, PBS and the BBC, it would be virtually impossible to get any real news in America.

Unlike conservative radio talk show hosts, I won't just make some blanket statement and then fail to prove it. First of all, virtually every newspaper, radio and television station in America is owned by corporations, the same corporations who suffer by higher taxes enacted by President Barack Obama. If you took basic economics you know that corporations are in the business of making money, not in reporting the news. Whether you know it or not, the corporations know it and are actively in that business and only passively in the news business. In fact, news is the least of any corporations primary concern and a quick reference to the facts will prove it.

Six companies control 90 percent of all media in the country: Time Warner, Disney, General Electric, Viacom, CBS and News Corp. That's a veritable who's who of Socialist supporters? Nonetheless, these are the people, Limbaugh and the like refer to as the liberal media. These are the folks he and his ilk claim refuse to hold Obama to the fire.

How could anyone convince themselves that these companies support Obama?

The reality is much different because in fact, these are the companies that refused to ask George W. Bush the tough questions, like "Why are we in Iraq, Where are the WMD's, Why did you lie to us, Why did you destroy the world economy?????" They also contributed heavily to Bush's and Romney's campaigns.

Like I said the reality is that there is no Liberal Media only a conservative media and your media has one aim, to protect the power of corporations over the labor force. The media is owned by the very people who have destroyed the middle class while gathering more money and power to themselves. To claim anything else is propaganda.

A couple of links for further study
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00000286
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/47530.php
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6

And perhaps the best book to explain the how and why and all the nuts and bolts of the media's incestuous relationship with the elite is Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent.


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