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a kennedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-26-10 08:00 AM
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A Corporate Media Owned by Wealthy Interests is Going to Disseminate Propaganda Aimed at
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Perpetuating Wealth for the Wealthy.


BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG BY MARK KARLIN

Why is this so hard to understand? If the airwaves were truly public, we would see diversity in news and the return of hundreds of billions of dollars in broadcast profits to the public treasury.

But in the spirit of corporate welfare, private corporations have been given or sold for nominal amounts the right to further enrich the wealthy and global businesses using airwaves that belong to the American citizens. That's not free enterprise; that's socialism for the super rich and stockholders at the expense of the working stiff.

And what do we get from this socialized corporate bonanza?

We get entertainment and news that is just filler in between segments of advertising that make the owners of Big Media very wealthy indeed. In fact, at a time when we most need a broadcast media with a sense of civic responsibility to sort out public policy issues, we get celebrity entertainment.

Politics has become just another reality TV show, a soap opera of the never-ending saga of Sara Palin. Or there is the daily overload of the "Tea Party," which was literally created in part by FOX Fraudcasting and its allies in the right wing. Television media -- and radio to a great extent -- aren't neutral providers of information; they have taken sides in the great political class conflict of our time, and they side with the numbing message that the status quo of trickle down corporate welfare is good for America, when, in reality, it's good for the owners of television outlets but not for the average American.

full article: http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3151

and don't forget to donate to Buzzflash!! Thanks.

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