Our government is running ALL the mainstream media now.

[Philosoraptor]

All of it, with very few exceptions, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, and many many others nationally and internationally.

I don't claim to be the discoverer of this breaking news, its just absolutely stunning how quickly it happened. Just as Orwell and others predicted. Hitler would have loved television, it is the number one instrument of mass mind control ever.

Every major news outlet has been acclimated, absorbed, assimilated and sabotaged by the white house machine.

My jaw is permanently dropped.

[cyberpj]

1. THE BIG TEN. Ever see this chart? And it's and old one.

I'd love to see a new one...

http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html

[lectrobyte]

7. That's a great link, thanks.

[Ron Green]

2. I wish you'd posted "this administration" rather than "our government."

To me, the government is still full of civil servants who do a good job and seek to carry out the policies that We the People have approved. Bush's masters have hijacked the Executive Branch, and the Congress has been taken over by corporate lobbies, but I think the government can be saved.

These "news" media are full of otherwise intelligent people who have lost their way in a world of personal economic temptations.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Ssshhh!

If you let the Republicans know there are still good conscientious civil servants out there, they'll go after them and take them out.

[Cygnusx2112]

3. While I completely understand what you're saying...

...and might agree to a point...

I wonder how someone like Olbermann figures into this equation.

Along with sinking Fox ratings numbers and (I can assume) rising Olbermann ratings numbers. And if indeed they are rising in that time slot, wouldn't tv executives want to put on MORE shows like his?

How does someone like Olbermann stay on the air with such biting and incisive critiques of this administration?

[IChing]

12. Look what happen to Phil Donahue who had popular ratings

but got canned, he had higher ratings than all other programs on the same network that were not canned.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0227-04.htm

Welcome to DU

[Cygnusx2112]

13. Thanks for the welcome (I've been lurking for years...)

Do you think we can expect a canning of Olbermann soon?



If the PTB are "influencing" media:

1. How does Olbermann stay on?
1a. Do you think his bosses attempt to steer him a certain way?
2. Why doesn't CNN attempt to replicate his success with a like minded news personality instead of the idiots they trot out (Grace, Beck)

[bryant69]

4. I know that this is heresy but, no, our govermnet is NOT running all media

They aren't running all mainstream media. The conservatoids certainly have the advantage right now, but to claim that they run it all, is, well, not accurate.

I apologize if expressing this opinion offends anybody.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Cygnusx2112]

5. Maybe running isn't the word...

...how about influencing?

[bryant69]

10. Influencing is accurate - and would be even if they weren't doing anything

shady. Both parties do their best to influence the media - as do unions, churches, iterest groups, private figures and so on.

That said, the Republicans are clearly winning the media balance, in part because reporters are lazy and stupid, and they know how to capitalize on that. Also editors and media owners are big businesses and so will tend to make the news a bit more conservative when it comes to economic news.

Bryant

[yella_dawg]

6. In 1942 the New York Times reported

that Prescott Bush's Union Bank had been authorized to change it's address of record. They failed to mention the new address was the US Government enemy properties manager, or that five Bush controlled operations had been siezed by Congress for connections to Nazi Germany.

This ain't new, it's just becoming more blatant.

[radfringe]

9. according to bush

the terrorists are running the media...

what's the difference?

[KurtNYC]

11. That doesn't explain the way they covered Clinton while

he was President. They parrotted every GOP talking point; called everything he did ____-gate (and of course "gate" means Impeachable offense). They avoided using the phrase "the President" and "President Clinton" -- instead calling him Mister Clinton. Newsweek wrote the book "True Colors" then lied about who "anonymous" then admitted it was them afterall.

So I don't see this as a recent development and it isn't the government (assuming Clinton was the government at the time they assailed him) that is controlling the bias and framing, what they over-cover and what they ignore.