Anybody who thinks that US media is "liberally biased" is a bit naive. Who killed the FCC's Fairness Doctraine? Reagan, :-x a Republican. I tend to be ultra-right wing on some things, eclipsing Republicans on some of their own issues. But you have to see Republicans for the CORPORATE WHORES :-( that they are. Democrats are barely any better. That's why campaign finance reform is needed. But I digress...
Who (along with tacit approval of owning-class white-good-ole-boy Clinton-the-faux-Democrat) orchestrated the quiet coup which gave away BILLIONS in US public spectra to corporations?
Republicans. :-x
The fact that anybody sees Clinton as a "Democrat", let alone a "liberal" is some testiment to just how easily the uni-dimensional US media programs most people. If you compare policies in general, Republicans and Democrats are increasingly looking like each other.
Not all Republicans are bad, nor are all Democrats. Each are compromised differently. I don't want anybody thinking I'm saying ALL party X is this way. I'm saying MOST. :-) But I digress again.
:-D Did you know that just 9 companies own 98% of the US media market?
NINE. You can't have a healthy republic with that kind of limited POV.
And do you even want to talk about SkyNet/FOX/Fox_News and that uber-fascist Rupert Murdoch? He makes Bill Gates look like a moderate!
:-P The core problem is that Republicans generally want RIGHTS for corporations-- rights that exceed that of humans. And since corporations own the media, all we get is their self-serving propaganda.
How many of you people even know that our :-D Henry Kissinger is wanted for War Crimes?
Your "liberal" media never seems to report the very "liberal" issues, does it? Instead it gives you this false dichotomy to distract you from the real games. You haven't even got a clue who really runs the world, or how. The most powerful people on this planet are families YOU"VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF.
That's why we have people like rumloader. He doesn't realize he's been programmed already. If you want independent reporting try
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Independent Media Near Your HomeTownThere's also at least one media-watchdog group worth bookmarking:
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Fairness And Accuracy In Reporting You can hunt for the media-corporate critiquing radio show :-)
CounterSpinOr the Magazine
EXTRA!I also suggest NewsWatch on Fox News, although it is a bit like mind melding with Roger Ailes. It's better than the crap on Sunday morning news TV.
And once you understand how media and content companies are overlapping with major consumer electronic companies (MS and SONY are the scariest IMHO), you'll understand why such insane legislation like the DMCA and others whiz right through the halls of Congress and get signed by the President.
Still don't get it? Look at the Warner Bros and TIME duopoly. Then CNN took them over (laughably, some Faux News types claim CNN is "liberal") and then AOL took them over. And POOF, suddenly CNN is running puff pieces for PEOPLE MAGAZINE instead of hard reporting. Their coverage of techno-politics has gone to hell, just as Steve Case would have wanted it. These people don't get to the top by being concerned about anything but their own agenda, which filters through their own media outlet now. If you don't see that, you're not only a cog, you're a blind and deaf cog at that. And have you noticed all the AOL commercials on CNN/Headline News? They're one big incestuous corporate family.
Which explains the drivel they put out.
Keep in mind I could say that Disney/ABC, GE/NBC, Capitol/CBS and Fox are far worse. Especially FOX News.
The day is coming when they're going to try to dictate which platforms are allowable, in the name of protecting the "digital rights" of "rights-holders".
And judging from the DMCA and others, it's sooner than we think.
