Posted on 01/19/2014 2:46:33 AM PST by grimalkin
I think this describes 99% of “journalism” in the USA today.
> I think this describes 99% of “journalism” in the USA today.
Chrissy Matthews and other MSM cheerleaders come to mind...
None of these communist dreamers ever see themselves cleaning out a socialist stable or unplugging a sewage line. They always see themselves in charge
Spot on. David Horowitz would agree with you. He mentioned this in his book Radical Son. It's the "I am special", "I belong to something", "Look at how wonderful I am" attitude.
No. We belong to God and His laws, not earthly institutions. There is no Utopia, because ultimately, someone will decide that THEY are in charge and boy, what a sorry outcome that will be.
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.
It is not Truth Revolt that is proposing union control of the media.
Their aim is to expose the attempts to exert such control.
They are the good guys.
Here is their Mission Statement
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.
“...there will no longer be advertisements filling newspapers or commercial breaks on TV”
No advertisement means no income.
Unless they plan on taxing the people to be educated in the joys of socialism.
The left feel that they have complete control now and for once they can tell the truth about their goals, but I think they are premature in their euphoria.
The American people are being forced at the point of a “gun” (the full weight of the Federal Government) to change their cultural beliefs and to accept things that just a few years ago if not illegal were at least unacceptable. These change are not coming about because of popular desire, but from unelected judges, and propaganda of the main stream media.
Will this trend continue unopposed? I don’t think so, if for no other reason then life is getting harder for the average American and we are being told that this is the new reality.
The left has removed the safety valve (by demonizing anyone that does not agree with them, and if that does not work, destroy them). They are making any attempt to demonstrate disapproval for what they believe a crime, labeling it “hate speech”.
What happens with a pressure cooker when the safety valve has been disabled and yet the pot remains on the fire?
There is not question there will be a backlash from all these attempt to change America, the only questions will be when and how bad will it get when it occurs.
In this new socialist society that has "erased corporate control," there will no longer be advertisements filling newspapers or commercial breaks on TV. The media would be owned by "labor unions, neighborhood associations, and cultural centers." That way, the "media can represent the interests of working people" -- not the interests of corporate sponsors.
I wonder if the people who write this kind of nonsense ever stop to think that there is absolutely nothing that prevents them from establishing this kind of media right now, if they can find funders.
They of course don't think in such terms. Whatever the gleam in their eye regarding the new order, far down the road, their immediate, overriding motivation in the here and now is to suppress media outlets that they don't like. They are thugs, using a vision of a socialist future to rationalize their thuggery now.
“What socialism does it makes children out of adults.”
With their consent.
Because it caters to the perpetually immature.
You know them, the ones that always want their mommy.
That’s the hook it sinks in the flesh of base desire:
to be “taken care of”,
to be released from grinding responsibility,
to escape real life and suckle in comfort,
asleep in mommy’s arms.
Israel is a socialist country, designed that way from the beginning. Their tax burden and government size increases every year.
Maybe because the system worked... I could get a repairman out to my house in less than 10 minutes and the bill was very, very small. They were broken up by the left.
They didn't even update the "workers" rhetoric. Today the left is the un-employed and gov-employed no'bility, not the workers. They want to progressively enslave the few remaining workers to serve them. Leftist voters are allergic to work and can't relate.
Between mass shootings, labor camps, forced exile, and artificially created famine conditions (not to mention ill-advised policies during World War II), the death toll from the Soviet Union and China during these time periods (by scholarly estimates) STARTS at 100 million and could be as high as 150 million! 
Think of the Nazi Holocaust, but completely unfettered.
In their wonderful world, I am sure the camp guards and staff will be fully unionized.
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