We have devalued our belonging to people and place as our allegiance to paternal sources has grown. These allegiances include political parties, corporations and interest groups. We trust in these paternal sources, particularly as represented by corporate media and think tanks, while skeptical of human nature. This reverses where the “innocent until proven guilty” focus [...]
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In the last entry I stated that Mark Levin focuses more of his second chapter, “Prudence and Progress,” villainizing a bogeyman he calls a Statist (read, Modern Liberal) rather than focusing on explaining his own position. I also explained what Levin’s “ordered liberty” probably means to him, based on a few sparse statements and his [...]
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Occasionally I get an idea for an entry that I put on hold because of a series I am working on. After the 2008 election one of my immediate reflections that I put on hold was that corporate media, particularly the types such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, sunk the Republican Party. This is [...]
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There have been tidbits coming out of the Bush II administration that they leave a legacy of having saved lives. Add to this the sentiment I have heard expressed on corporate media that the surge worked and that invading Iraq may prove to be a feather in the Bush II legacy.
Scholastically, I suppose there are [...]
Media Matters did some research recently that revealed corporate media reported on the Obama democratic embarrassments of Ayers and Rezko more often than the McCain democratic embarrassments of G. Gordon Liddy and questionable land deals for donors. We could nitpick on whether these are the best choices. For example, Reverend Wright might be considered an [...]
I have an extremely simple but effective solution to fixing our economic system. Bombard the public with economic data important to the middle class as frequently as we are bombarded with stock market indicators.
The stock market will rebound precisely because of the feedback presented to the public and authorities alike on a continual basis. Those [...]
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One problem with doing a web log is the time crunch in delivering a “product” on almost a daily basis. When I began this series on corporate media news I had the basic outline of messages I wanted to convey and I delivered those messages. Yet a few details get lost in the “push.” This [...]
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We are a nation governed by laws. There are many smart folks serving as lawyers that make sure of that. Any societal trend or established phenomenon ultimately is allowed by law, if not outright encouraged or required. There are deregulation laws responsible for the media consolidation that has occurred since the seventies. This has centralized [...]
“Only select news items are featured in the echo chamber. A nice illustration of what “makes the cut” happened during the 2004 election. In August of that election year two separate but related news releases occurred on the same day: one stating that the percentage in poverty had increased and the other that the percentage [...]
“Since the fifties communication rules and legislation have served to undermine the public good of diversity, localism and competition. In 1953 the caps for the number of radio stations the same corporation could own were set at seven AM and seven FM. In 1984 these caps were raised to twelve and twelve; in [...]
