Reply #16: This is one of the best assessments of media influence.... [View All]

[nomaco-10]

and bias I've ever read. I will be bookmarking this one for sure and with the author's permission, I'd like to send it out to a few media outlets and websites. I think I'll print out a few copies while I'm at it.

Yes, I have thought about a great many of these very points more often than I intended to here lately. Yes, I remember the days when men like John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were silenced by the thunderous boom of a gunshot to the head, always the head as if the bullet was meant in almost a symbolic way to stifle the very core of where their thoughts and ideas had came from. Now bullets to the brain aren't necessary, we have the media for that, and make no mistake, that's exactly what the media does. They just assassinate with a different method. The written and spoken word can be just as deadly when it comes to silencing ideas and notions of those that want a better a society or a global vision for peace. David Kelly comes to mind and maybe Vince Foster, they're one of a few that come to mind that wouldn't give the media the satisfaction, they decided to take matters into their own hands, some call it suicide, but it was assasination just the same.

Yes, the time frame you speak of cleared the way for Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the rest of the huge media conglomerates to steal the airways and bombard us with Clear Channel and nothing more than tabloid journalism interspersed with commercials telling us all how much we need to have brighter teeth, sparkling breath and healthier gums every five minutes, something I might add that your parents taught you when you were four years old.

Howard Dean told Chris Matthews that he would put a stop to media monopolies and his campaign was derailed shortly there after. Michael Powell was working desperately to make sure the monopolies would gain more control and was held up shortly, but is still working diligently behind the scenes to accomplish just that. Just what we need more Rush, Hannity, O'Rielly and Scarborough not to mention more unsavory marriage by media whore reality shows.
Great post SoCalDem