The defining issue of our time is THE MEDIA - Jamison Foser

[Vinnie From Indy]

Jamison does an excellent job of highlighting American media's gargantuan bias against progressives and liberals.

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The defining issue of our time is not the Iraq war. It is not the "global war on terror." It is not our inability (or unwillingness) to ensure that all Americans have access to affordable health care. Nor is it immigration, outsourcing, or growing income inequity. It is not education, it is not global warming, and it is not Social Security.

The defining issue of our time is the media.

The dominant political force of our time is not Karl Rove or the Christian Right or Bill Clinton. It is not the ruthlessness or the tactical and strategic superiority of the Republicans, and it is not your favorite theory about what is wrong with the Democrats.

The dominant political force of our time is the media.

Time after time, the news media have covered progressives and conservatives in wildly different ways -- and, time after time, they do so to the benefit of conservatives.


Read the whole article here:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200605260016

[oscar111]

1. AAR is the cure. Randi Rhodes site details how union LOCAL

bought a station for one hundred sixty thousand in Anchorage and put AAR on air.

KUDO, bought by IBEW.

[PATRICK]

2. The gambit unraveling

The twists and betrayals of the profession of news journalism has exposed the vast disconnect in our society in a way that the KKK taking over your town would expose racism and weakness. They rally and overpower by bringing out the worst to prominence but end by becoming exposed as the heart of the problem. We should never forget the complacency and the acceptance and even desire for lies and rotten values that muddies our vast river of social consciousness is the larger problem that the treason of one profession or class uses to redirect our destiny.

The glass darkly shows that American journalism has always been part of this flaw and only in its extreme
degradation and pomp now has shown the price of tolerance and acceptance of vast wrongs. Traditional wars against slaveholders, corporate hogs, etc. can always focus on the abuser and make the situation seem a bit better. in fact each step does make the public better. But overall, now, we have been put to a massive universal test by moronic tyrants and their sycophants. No rifles against redcoats, no storming the trenches, no courts or legislation to perform the delegated antibody function while we admire the Constitution as more powerful somehow than the Bible. No scores of beaten and killed unionists earning labor rights with blood. No, we are joined with the plundered and seized society in pissing the future away and losing all that hard won ground. That is vaster than the blinkers cast around our eyes by frauds
we trusted habitually.

Whenever we beat down the individual frauds we must make even more progress in understanding and protecting human rights. We are in a constant race between extinction and moral/biological evolutionary progress. The American dream should not mean peacefully dying in one's sleep delusions. The incompetent sleep inducers and hypnotists must be ignored and replaced with a real social dialogue of facts and a competition of service.

[Jim__]

3. The media seems to be the only explanation for people repeatedly voting

against their own interests. Even occasional reporting of the obvious scams against the interests of the people by the bush regime would lead to public outrage.

[Gregorian]

4. Restore the Fairness Doctrine. Create more honest media.

Repealing the Fairness Doctrine was pivotal to the Conservative agenda. And it makes sense that as it was one of the first things they did, it also must be one of the first thing we restore.

I'm extremely pessimistic. And it's not just because I'm a negative guy. Restoring the Fairness Doctrine only does so much good. We are in a world of trouble since the conservatives jacked this country around with the FCC, and buying up so much of the media.

This is not a short term fix. We are looking at decades to turn ownership around. But then maybe something dramatic will happen in America.