Posted on 08/02/2014 6:06:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
This is impotence on steroids. Demand that the mainstream media provide balanced, fair coverage? You might as well demand chastity in a bordello.
Agreed. The MSM is advancing its own liberal agenda, and it is madness to expect any sort of "fair" coverage on any issue.
If the MSM gave Obama the GWB treatment, he would be on his way out the door by now and probably wouldn't have won reelection.
Does anyone remember when the Obama Admin met on a regular basis with the media heads to discuss what news should be reported and how it should be promoted?
We do not have a free and independent media. Our media has been co-opted, willingly due to shared sensibilities, and absorbed by the left. It is propaganda. That is what “news” has become.
The media is as ideologically fixed as the democrats. They are incapable of any criticism because they do not disagree with the administration.
The media, academia, the government, and cultural elite are the status quo. It is amazing that the young people are so incapable of thinking that they do not see the extent to which the hidebound reactionaries of the left have destroyed their future.
If there were a devil, he would want to be unknown, in fact, his anonymity would be essential for him to further his purpose.
The news media have become an unregulated supra-governmental force, without checks and balances required for a functioning democratic republic to continue. The truth about their activities is hidden behind a tissue of illusion, like wheels within wheels, because if their great power to obfuscate and spin delusions were publicized, it would fail.
It’s essential for the news media to achieve their purpose, that they blend into the background, in fact, achieve invisibility. A succinct, accurate label for the media is needed, toward the goal of neutralizing the consciousness-limiting effects of newspeak.
Neo-Stalinist Media Megalopoly is a term very dense, if not obscure, but I need to use it to convey a lot of background.
Neo-Stalinist refers to the fact that historical dictatorships have regarded achieving absolute control of their media image as key to regulating their subjects’ thought patterns, their most important long-term goal after taking the essential, more immediate step of the liquidating the intelligentsia and the priests.
The rulers of a megalopoly are the undisputed dominant elite of an all-inclusive, inescapable geographic domaina hegemony beyond the furthest that anyone can run or hide. Consider the adamantine resolve of the population-controllers and sexual-radicals that no nation, people or group shall escape compulsory, abortion-on-demand.
The current reign of disinformation has exceeded the wildest dreams of Hitler, Stalin or Mao.
The American media are poised to escape their slavish obedience to the current administration, and take their place as our undisputed masters. They only temporarily lack the coherence to achieve this, but they have all the instruments of control already within their grasp.
The criterion of success:
American media consumersJoe People Magazine and Sally Entertainment Tonightmust never suspect that their opinions are carefully and completely programmed.
Subjects of the old Soviet Union knew the official press was completely regulated and filled with lies, but they still paid attention to its pronouncements because hidden between the lines in Pravda, there were messages regarding underground currents and trends in the politics of the ruling elite.
No such wrinkle is allowed to disturb the surface of the Neo-Stalinist Media Megaloply’s “news” offerings.
“ they were either politicians or reporters, which, of course, comes to the same thing.” Ford Madox Ford, “The Good Soldier“
Among the disinformational elite, the graduates of Columbia Journalism School and other top training institutions, the holy grail of journalistic achievement is to make or break governments. An example of this type of thing, a difference of degree rather than kind, is [an unnamed intelligence service]’s involvement in the downfall of [an unnamed] government in the 1970s. (Intelligence services and news media actually have a large overlap in operations.)
This list of successful American media coups is short but significant:
Perhaps most remarkable among the true superlatives of American historyrichest-ever nation, most freedom, millions still want to come hereis the fact that the American media have achieved the most successful regime of thought-control in world history, unmatched in the wildest dreams of the great dictators.
It’s all so big, they just haven’t yet figured out what to do with it.
A disgraced Catholic Priest, who prefers not to be mentioned, once remarked that in the dregs of society where there is no room for illusionsamong the drug addicts and prostitutesthere is no doubt that the devil is real.
The internet is the ONLY place for news.
And then, YA GOTTA DIG!
Then dig some more.
The graphic has one verious serious error thet throws it all in doubt
Comcast is not owned or controlled by GE. Neither is NBC
Comcast purchased NBC from GE
Comcast is a bonefide American enemy on a par with Al Qeads
Academia, the msm and the cultural elite are the establishment. We’re the counter-establishment. Unfortunately conservatives just don’t typically think along those lines.
Thanks Kaslin.
Never in my wildest dreams would I have believed what my country has become, thanks to the Pravda media.
Maybe the media should see this
“... Syrian elder surrounding himself with five little children, right next to a mortar firing shells...”
I agree. A conservative, pro America group needs to buy an entertainment rich media outlet.
The people who accept the media narrative unquestioningly are as much at fault as the media itself.
I'd like to know more about this, as it was my impression that it was Roosevelt's administration that installed the Frankfurt School in American universities (including Fromm, Adorno, and Maslow). Got a source?
“The media is as ideologically fixed as the democrats. They are incapable of any criticism because they do not disagree with the administration.”
They are PART OF the administration.
The first two columns are the dope peddlers. The third is the dope.
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