We need to take over media outlets. Also, when we do have a foot in the door, forget this “fair and balanced” crap.
Hence my tagline.
We need to take over media outlets. Also, when we do have a foot in the door, forget this “fair and balanced” crap.
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The Post of the Day if not The Week.
Yeah, and Will Rodgers had the answer to the submarine menace - boil the oceans. He said that figuring out how to boil the oceans was a detail for smaller minds . . .The answer is to sue the Associated Press into oblivion. On what grounds? On the grounds that it is a monopoly. Not in the sense that there are no other wire services (tho SCOTUS found AP guilty of Antitrust violation back in 1945), but in the sense that its membership monopolizes journalism, and its membership is homogenized by the AP. That monopoly is the reason that “you never argue with someone who buys ink by the carload” - it’s not that any single news outlet would be unassailable, but that the problem is never with a single news outlet because they are all in wire services, and wire services motivate all journalists to hang together and mercilessly exclude any journalist who questions the objectivity of another journalist in good standing.When the AP was found in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1945, the AP was “too big to fail” because its mission - the conservation of scarce telegraphy bandwidth in the transmission of the news - was believed to be too important. With 21st Century laser, fiber optic, microwave, and satellite technology, long distance communications bandwidth is plentiful and dirt cheap (hence, the Internet). The mission of conservation of bandwidth in news communication is now an anachronism. Now, the only legitimate consideration is the fact that wire services function as a news trust.