Corporate McPravda Represents One of Our Biggest Problems

[Octafish]

...Especially FOX News. That outfit is run on behalf of Rupert Murdoch by one Roger Ailes, former toady to the likes of George Herbert CIA in Dallas Walker Bush, Ronald Arms to Terrorists Reagan, and Richard Nixon the Crook. They have no love for real Democrats, Liberals, Progressives, or anyone interested in peace, justice, civil rights, and making life better for everybody other than the 1-percent.



A little backstory on Mr. Ailes, above in the Oval Office with Bebe Rebozo's best buddy. The fellow's been around and as much as any CEO, lowly clerk or hireling is responsible for producing the stinking heap of rightwing crap people see, hear, read, think and believe:


Richard Nixon and Roger Ailes 1970s plan to put the GOP on TV

Melissa Bell
Washington Post

EXCERPT...

A memo entitled “A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News,” buried in the the Nixon library details a plan between Ailes and the White House to bring pro-administration stories to television networks around the country. It reads: “Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. [font color="red"]The thinking is done for you.[/font color]”

CONTINUED...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/richard-nixon-and-roger-ailes-1970s-plan-to-put-the-gop-on-tv/2011/07/01/AG1W7XtH_blog.html


Rolling Stone provides another good read:

How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525#ixzz1i4D2slCf


So. Does anyone else have a problem with this or with understanding why the nation is so screwed up for the 99-percent and so few answers are in sight?

For that matter, does anyone remember why Liberal Democrats appreciated the Fairness Doctrine and were furious when our Democratic Party's leaders let it fall by the legislative wayside?

[TE Lawrence]

1. Although FOX's headquarters is in New York City, the "good old days" when all news emanated

from Manhattan are gone forever.

[Octafish]

3. From your keypad to God's earpiece.

Having Mr. Aile's replaced by a nation of independently minded news producers would be wonderful. It'd be even better if they were required by legislation to present more than the one monolithic conservative perspective on their "newscasts."

Here in Motown, FOX are just starting the layoff thing. Most of my old chums at CBS-TV got the ziggy years ago -- just after the previous regime built a wonderful and enormous new studio for producing local content, from afternoon movies to local news. Now the CBS facility is largely unused. Detroit CBS-TV stopped producing its own local news. Like its entertainment programming, most of the stuff comes in on a feed from CBS New York.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Don't forget Trickies contribution to Healthcare.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Permanente

[Octafish]

4. Health Care is another Big Problem

Thanks for reminding me of Tricky Dick's interest in the subject...

How Kaiser Permanente and Nixon changed healthcare in the US...

EXCERPT...

This is a transcript of the 1971 conversation between President Richard Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman that led to the HMO act of 1973:

John D. Ehrlichman: “On the … on the health business …”

President Nixon: “Yeah.”

Ehrlichman: “… we have now narrowed down the vice president’s problems on this thing to one issue and that is whether we should include these health maintenance organizations like Edgar Kaiser’s Permanente thing. The vice president just cannot see it. We tried 15 ways from Friday to explain it to him and then help him to understand it. He finally says, ‘Well, I don’t think they’ll work, but if the President thinks it’s a good idea, I’ll support him a hundred percent.’”

President Nixon: “Well, what’s … what’s the judgment?”

Ehrlichman: “Well, everybody else’s judgment very strongly is that we go with it.”

President Nixon: “All right.”

Ehrlichman: “And, uh, uh, he’s the one holdout that we have in the whole office.”

President Nixon: “Say that I … I … I’d tell him I have doubts about it, but I think that it’s, uh, now let me ask you, now you give me your judgment. You know I’m not to keen on any of these damn medical programs.”

Ehrlichman: “This, uh, let me, let me tell you how I am …”

President Nixon: [Unclear.]

Ehrlichman: “This … this is a …”

President Nixon: “I don’t [unclear] …”

Ehrlichman: “… private enterprise one.”

President Nixon: “Well, that appeals to me.”

Ehrlichman: “Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason that he can … the reason he can do it … I had Edgar Kaiser come in … talk to me about this and I went into it in some depth. All the incentives are toward less medical care, because …”

President Nixon: [Unclear.]

Ehrlichman: “… the less care they give them, the more money they make.”

President Nixon: “Fine.” [Unclear.]

Ehrlichman: [Unclear] “… and the incentives run the right way.”

President Nixon: “Not bad.”

SOURCE: http://uspolitics.tribe.net/thread/b46391c0-55d0-45c4-91af-3e8793c1512b