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Daily Digest for September 24th — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:10:31 +0000

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By: libtree09

libtree09 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:39:39 +0000

yeah I agree with Rick and it all started with Reagan and the record holder for the quickest citizenship filing, Rupert Murdoch for whom the conservatives “deregulated” the media competition rules.

By: Rick Ungar

Rick Ungar — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:54:10 +0000

Banks took over the media business a very long time ago. This is just a new round of opportunity, particularly in radio which has been in big trouble for a couple of years now.

By: deleted account

deleted account — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:56:56 +0000

I don’t pretend to understand the finer points of finance and economics relative to power in this country, but I do know a bit about the media having spent almost twenty years doing their dirty work. And what I know is that the american public has been being spoon fed regurgitated pablum for as long as I can remember. Not only in the content of our news, but also in the content of everything from dramas, sitcoms and game shows to children’s programming. Did I mention the content of much of the new music being written? If you haven’t noticed similar underlying themes in all of the above, then you haven’t wanted to. Perhaps with the banks ownership of the media (and Hollywood) losing it’s transparency, you can now peek out from under the covers long enough to notice what’s been right under your bed for decades, a whole lot of motherfucking coincidences. That’s correct, as far as I’m concerned it could all be one big fucking coincidence perpetrated by like minded individuals who all just happen to be into the same shit. I don’t really care how it’s happened, all I know is what I see and what I see is some not very nice things being drummed into my head over and over and over again. Speaking of which, did you catch Tom DeLay on Dancing with the Stars last night? I almost peed myself, but I’m confident that the vast majority of viewers were all oohing and aahing over what a nice, down to earth, jovial fellow he was. This is what you would call and example of my big coincidence theory.

By: tickerage

tickerage — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:29:15 +0000

This happened years ago when the FCC deregulated media. Suddenly local radio went away. Then we had new moral censorship after the ‘wardrobe malfunction’ super bowl halftime. Then a silent media for 8 years of the Bush Administration, starting with the election, err Supreme Court appointment itself. Conservatives learned their lesson during the Nixon years, first you have to buy up the media, then you can rule.

By: gypsysister

gypsysister — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:02:39 +0000

Thanks; you’re justifying my lack of need for a fancy schmancy new tv. As for print journalism, I was sad to discover that the Des Moines Register had long strayed from its greatness by the time I moved here 3 years ago, so I gather my news online and from npr. While I’m not sure this is entirely a good thing, i can’t say that the old version of being informed is better these days.

Small tangent – for those who fear that we are headed into a socialist society, I wanna know where they think there’s a place for capitalism, since the free market slid down the slippery slope to corporatism – starting in the 80s. I can find plenty of socialist tendencies in our democracy, and Michael Moore is glad to point them out. There are also plenty of examples of feudalism (ranging from pyramid schemes to payday lenders to the mafia, gangs, and indentured servitude/sweatshops). I am hard pressed to find capitalism where people point it out; it always smells of the corporatismo lagoon.

By: crevass

crevass — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:41:38 +0000

Old media is like fish wrap – like the Emmy comments last night about welcome to the last days of the networks. We found out a while ago that when truth is outlawed, only outlaws will know the good passwords.

By: lynnk

lynnk — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:47:50 +0000

They were tired of buying only public sector entities, I suppose.

By: markbolton

markbolton — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:06:50 +0000

Why do I get the feeling that we will someday see this headline: GOLDMAN-SACHS BUYS ROLLING STONE – TAIBBI MISSING!?!
The headline will be followed by an article explaining how this is just a coincidence.

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