David Podvin: "Media Killed the Politico Star"

[stickdog]

Here's an article I agree with 100%. The two biggest enemies of true democracy in the USA are:

1) the corporate media

and

2) the naive portion of the American public's continuing blind trust in the corporate media's now completely nonexistent "journalistic standards."


http://www.makethemaccountable.com/podvin/media/040201_TheScream.htm

On December 1, 2003, Howard Dean was ahead by twenty points in the polls when he appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews and said, “We're going to break up the giant media enterprises.” This pronouncement went far beyond the governor’s previous public musings about possibly re-regulating the communications industry, and amounted to a declaration of war on the corporations that administer the flow of information in the United States.

It was an extraordinarily noble and dangerous thing to do: when he advocated a truly free press, Dr. Dean was provoking the corrupt media conglomerates that control what most Americans see and hear and read, and thereby control what most Americans think.

The media giants quickly responded by crushing his high-flying campaign with the greatest of ease. This time, they didn’t even have to invent a scandal in order to achieve the desired result; merely by chanting the word “unelectable” at maximum volume, the mainstream media maneuvered Democratic voters into switching their support to someone who poses no threat to the status quo.

John Kerry is a member in good standing of the feeble Daschle/Biden/Feinstein wing of the Democratic Party, a group of politicians whose disagreements with the mercantile elite tend to be merely rhetorical. Any doubts about Kerry’s level of commitment to his stated progressive beliefs were conclusively answered in 1994 when he proclaimed himself “delighted” with the Republican takeover of Congress. The media oligarchy knows that a general election race between Kerry and George W. Bush will insure a continuation of its monopoly, regardless of who wins.

[stickdog]

1. Wow! I find this article quite compelling! Thanks for posting it.

:-)

[AP]

2. Over in GD I'm defending myself from lots of DU'ers who don't believe that

my local news and the NYT have a subtle racist agenda. Nobody wants to believe it could even be possible.

I'm being told that I'm too sensitive, like it's about feelings and not money.

[stickdog]

3. It's about money. (nt)

[Straight Shooter]

4. Prepare to be flamed.

Podvin despises Kerry.

Of course, Ted Rall also believes that the kerry/bush match is a setup.

Corporations, exercising their power through the media, are like water at our feet in a cistern, slowly rising. Cheap labor America. It's not just a dream -- it's a waking nightmare!

[KFC]

5. Holy shit! The media has gained control of my brain.

Now where the hell did I put those sausages.

[Meldread]

6. Good Article. I put it in my sig. -nt-