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In reply to the discussion: Understanding the corporate media [View all]

Dustlawyer

(10,532 posts)
1. I am tired of all of the propaganda and media corruption.
Thu Sep 21, 2017, 12:14 PM
Sep 2017

Everyone who follows politics, and most people who don't know that politicians will do a lot of things for their big campaign donors. The Quid Pro Quo is illegal but never talked about on our media. They do not ask the question for things like, Why are the Republicans pushing a Health Care bill with only 12% approval? They know the answer but are forbidden by their corporate masters from talking about it.

Why don't you hear much about climate change on TV? The impact to oil company revenue (big advertisers) and the medias loss of oil ad dollars if they did. BP made sure to advertise heavily along the Gulf Coast and on national media so that no reporting about the spill (after they capped the well) and the victims would come out. BP's national commercials after that showed a lady in Alaska with fog coming off of her breath, as far from the Gulf as BP could get. Now another round of how safe they are!

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