I whipped this little article up this morning.
A rough draft but I had to get these views out.
SHRED
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The So-Called Liberal MediaAug, 6, 2005
Ted D. aka: SHRED
This has been part of the right wing lexicon for a while now. It was devised to sway minds that don't even know what "liberal" means and as part of a planned negative imagery technique. It has worked to a large degree.
It was developed as part of the 2 word slogan movement such as,. "Family Values", "Tax and Spend", "Smaller Government", "Pro Life", and later "Clear Skies", "Healthy Forests", etc..
Back to "liberal media". Truly understanding a progressive or liberal viewpoint reveals these 2 words together as laughable. The only areas, of the MSCM(mainstream corporate media), where liberal/progressive views are expressed are a small sliver of radio, such as AAR(Air America Radio), a few NPR(National Public Radio) guests once in a while, and on TV virtually nothing except a bare minimum scattering of true liberal viewpoints once in a while. CSPAN, Frontline, etc..
If it was a "liberal media" then AAR and shows similar would NOT stand out.
The reality is that it’s a corporate monopoly driven media where the number one rule is to not offend your sponsors. These sponsors buy air time and have investments in the war machine, big polluters, insurance, pharmaceuticals,etc.. This is why the MSCM is devoid of true answers to our health care crisis, petroleum addiction, who is obscenely profiteering from war, how your representatives vote, what bills are before congress, any real news that affects our daily lives.
It's doesn't even resemble a "free market" media. The handful of corporate interests that own the media have gutted any legislation that protects us from monopolistic takeovers thus allowing a very few companies to own the message.
http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership/chart.shtml A message that is decidedly corporate friendly and does not have the public's interest in mind by and large. These are Public airwaves but the corporate interests have also done a thorough job of convincing us that our Government is bad and to trust them instead.
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/We need a stronger Government which means more involvement by our youth and everyone. Unfortunately the right wing corporate interests have lambasted the Government for the last 20 years, with shows like Limbaugh's and the other 450 conservative hosts. They go on and on about how we need to shrink Government and weaken it. They are doing the bidding of their corporate masters and the unenlightened listen like bobble heads.
When you control the media you control the message and thus the way people think.
There was a time when investigative journalists were paid a common man's salary. Now they have huge incomes to protect. They can't ask the President the real questions, or write the real story, because that puts their personal incomes in jeopardy. Must not slap the hand that feeds them.
The "media" is so out-of-balance, tailored, and censored to the corporate view that I don't know what it will take to shake it loose. This Iraq "war" is doing a little shaking but a responsible, public good oriented media is still nowhere to be found.
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