THE BROKEN MEDIA ISSUE: VOLUME 108, ISSUE 133
THE CORPORATE MEDIA AND ITS DISCONTENTS
by Malik Isasis
Way back on October 18, 2006 President Bush had both the House and the Senate and from 2001-2006, he and the Republican Party reeked havoc on the economy with its “Starving the Beast” policies, jump started two wars and subs sequent occupations, and thoroughly collapsed the US economy into near bankruptcy, which proved the conservative economic policy of “Starving the Beast”, (creating such deficits through tax cuts that social programs die a seemingly natural death through attrition), worked quite well.
Having already imposed deep program cuts, governors in almost every state will have to make even more excruciating choices before July 1st, the beginning of their next fiscal year. In Massachusetts, officials are considering eliminating funding for a program providing housing vouchers to homeless families. California is facing $1.5 billion in reductions to kindergarten through 12th grade education and community college funding, while New York State may have to reduce payments to health-care providers by $400 million.
The Phoenix
October 18, 2006 was just weeks before the Democratic Party was to take control of the US Senate, which it hadn’t control since President Clinton lost it back in 1994. As political scandal after political scandal marred the Republicans, the Democrats were presented with opportunities to win seats in the unlikeliest districts. On October 18, 2006, I blogged this:The Republican implosion is not new. Throughout the 20th century, there are examples of Republicans reaching the pinnacle of power and then collapsing from the weight of their incompetence and lack of compassion. It’s the Peter Principle, which theorizes that a person will be promoted to the highest level of his/or her competence and eventually advance to a level of incompetence. The modern Republican Party implodes every other generation under its own ineptitude and rises like the Phoenix, only to repeat the same mistakes.
The Republicans understand that they really don’t have to change they just have to wait. I won’t blame the Republicans for their nature of petulance and incompetence just as I won’t blame a pile of shit for smelling. It’s useless. I can, however, dress-down the corporate media for its nihilism, and festering cynicism that threatens democracy.
Even in the age of Youtube and other neat recording devices, the corporate media divorce the Republican Party and its operatives from its long and disastrous history and give their failed voices authority.
Republicans are exceptional at branding things, just as they have branded themselves the party of moral values, in spite of the opposite; the corporate media has played along. Here is a long list of Republican hypocrisy on moral values.
THE CROOKED REF
The Fourth Estate, formerly known as the media, had/has the role of being a government watch dog, making sure that we had an educated citizenry. Of course now, the corporate media makes sure that keep kicking up dust, to muddle every single issue, even when it’s easy. The corporate media put the same value on a talking point as it does a fact, therefore when Republicans are spewing lies, they weigh it as equally as the fact, cleverly framing debates with Republican talking points by pretending to play Devil’s Advocate. So when people have been misinformed deliberately by the media’s own doing with help from the political operatives of the Republican Party, the corporate media reports the lack of support for health care as if its reporting had nothing to do with the results.
Blogger Alex Thurston at Firedoglake laid out the five biggest Republican folklores that the corporate media allow the Republican Party to get away with.
Republicans are Fiscal Conservatives
Republicans are Strong on National Security
Republicans Defend Individual Rights
Republicans Represent Family Values
Republicans Just Want Everyone to Have the Same Opportunities
The corporate media feeds images of violence in its most rawest forms without political context, or historical subtext. They report on symptoms of international strife like, blood, guts, tears, and American victimology rather than on the disease, or causes of said conflicts, like neo-colonial capitalism. It is a dumb-down, anti-intellectual formula that makes consumers of their reporting more susceptible to paranoia and irrational fears. For the corporate media is not in the business of advocacy anymore, rather it is in the business of turning citizens into consumers, blind, uncritically-thinking consumers who will respond to such comic-book concepts as War on Terror. They have succeeded in making the consumers of their products vote against their own best interests. The corporate media is broken and should come with a warning label like cigarettes.
Warning: if you consume this product you are at risk for intellectual cancer.
THE CORPORATE MEDIA AND ITS DISCONTENTS
by Malik Isasis
Way back on October 18, 2006 President Bush had both the House and the Senate and from 2001-2006, he and the Republican Party reeked havoc on the economy with its “Starving the Beast” policies, jump started two wars and subs sequent occupations, and thoroughly collapsed the US economy into near bankruptcy, which proved the conservative economic policy of “Starving the Beast”, (creating such deficits through tax cuts that social programs die a seemingly natural death through attrition), worked quite well.
Having already imposed deep program cuts, governors in almost every state will have to make even more excruciating choices before July 1st, the beginning of their next fiscal year. In Massachusetts, officials are considering eliminating funding for a program providing housing vouchers to homeless families. California is facing $1.5 billion in reductions to kindergarten through 12th grade education and community college funding, while New York State may have to reduce payments to health-care providers by $400 million.
The Phoenix
October 18, 2006 was just weeks before the Democratic Party was to take control of the US Senate, which it hadn’t control since President Clinton lost it back in 1994. As political scandal after political scandal marred the Republicans, the Democrats were presented with opportunities to win seats in the unlikeliest districts. On October 18, 2006, I blogged this:The Republican implosion is not new. Throughout the 20th century, there are examples of Republicans reaching the pinnacle of power and then collapsing from the weight of their incompetence and lack of compassion. It’s the Peter Principle, which theorizes that a person will be promoted to the highest level of his/or her competence and eventually advance to a level of incompetence. The modern Republican Party implodes every other generation under its own ineptitude and rises like the Phoenix, only to repeat the same mistakes.
The Republicans understand that they really don’t have to change they just have to wait. I won’t blame the Republicans for their nature of petulance and incompetence just as I won’t blame a pile of shit for smelling. It’s useless. I can, however, dress-down the corporate media for its nihilism, and festering cynicism that threatens democracy.
Even in the age of Youtube and other neat recording devices, the corporate media divorce the Republican Party and its operatives from its long and disastrous history and give their failed voices authority.
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Republicans are exceptional at branding things, just as they have branded themselves the party of moral values, in spite of the opposite; the corporate media has played along. Here is a long list of Republican hypocrisy on moral values.
THE CROOKED REF
The Fourth Estate, formerly known as the media, had/has the role of being a government watch dog, making sure that we had an educated citizenry. Of course now, the corporate media makes sure that keep kicking up dust, to muddle every single issue, even when it’s easy. The corporate media put the same value on a talking point as it does a fact, therefore when Republicans are spewing lies, they weigh it as equally as the fact, cleverly framing debates with Republican talking points by pretending to play Devil’s Advocate. So when people have been misinformed deliberately by the media’s own doing with help from the political operatives of the Republican Party, the corporate media reports the lack of support for health care as if its reporting had nothing to do with the results.
Blogger Alex Thurston at Firedoglake laid out the five biggest Republican folklores that the corporate media allow the Republican Party to get away with.
Republicans are Fiscal Conservatives
Republicans are Strong on National Security
Republicans Defend Individual Rights
Republicans Represent Family Values
Republicans Just Want Everyone to Have the Same Opportunities
The corporate media feeds images of violence in its most rawest forms without political context, or historical subtext. They report on symptoms of international strife like, blood, guts, tears, and American victimology rather than on the disease, or causes of said conflicts, like neo-colonial capitalism. It is a dumb-down, anti-intellectual formula that makes consumers of their reporting more susceptible to paranoia and irrational fears. For the corporate media is not in the business of advocacy anymore, rather it is in the business of turning citizens into consumers, blind, uncritically-thinking consumers who will respond to such comic-book concepts as War on Terror. They have succeeded in making the consumers of their products vote against their own best interests. The corporate media is broken and should come with a warning label like cigarettes.
Warning: if you consume this product you are at risk for intellectual cancer.
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