Wondering where the 1%'ers buy-off mainstream media broadcast news orgs?

[Vinnie From Indy]

Simply watch any of the big three networks Sunday political shows. The commercial breaks are a parade of 30 or 60 second segments of bald-faced lies and in your face propaganda. From Big Energy telling viewers that natural gas will save the Earth without mentioning a word about fracking to investment banks and wealth management firms swearing over and over that they won't screw you in future somehow if you will just give them your money. The commercials are really quite funny for the informed. For example, Conoco runs an ad showing farmers pulling vegetables from their field, washing them off and giving them to a customer at a roadside stand next to their field. It is a bright sunny day, but the creators of the commercial didn't think that was good enough so they added cartoon clouds and animals. The point the commercial was clearly focused on was that America MUST accept natural gas as the energy of the future and the only thing we need to know about its production is that cartoon clouds will rain on beautiful farm fields and some guy with a British accent says it is safe.

OWS got a 30 second mention at the end of Meet the Press which was curiously cut-off ten seconds into the discussion by a local, public service announcement. When the service announcement was over the program resumed and David Gregory was thanking his guests.

Cheers!

[JackRiddler]

1. direct ownership, rule of profit, advertising, ideology, promotion of conformists, false objectivity

you name it!

But the sources of corporate revenue and direct conglomerate ownership (over the long run as it affects personnel) are the big ones.

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, profound levels of disinformation, deception and high-powered psych-ops marketing techniques.nt

[Ghost Dog]

7. Profound levels, indeed.

Although, re: "...some guy with a British accent says it is safe." Doesn't that give the game away? I thought the British accent was usually reserved for the bad guys in the movies. ;)

[Tippy]

3. I have a theory,,,

They must like the smell and taste of shit....

[Walk away]

4. It's just unbelievable that OWS gets tossed in the trash by every "news"

outlet including MSNBC. The Teabaggers had 24/7 coverage from the first day they opened their big fat racist mouths.

[nineteen50]

5. The airways belong to the people

we need to find a way to force a rebuttal on air to these
political commercials, only problem is the corporations own
the politicians, courts, force and media they purchased them
with free speech.(money)

[MadHound]

6. Buy them off, hell, the one percent owns the media in this country

Truly now, since the '96 Telecom Act(thank you Bill Clinton) the media has consolidated itself to the point that literally a handful of corporations, five or six, own 90-95% of the media in this country, TV, newspaper, radio, movies, book publishers, magazines.

No need to buy anybody off when you own the company.

[SpiralHawk]

8. + 1,000

+++

[EC]

9. Well, what should we expect when one major network

is owned by GE? At least all the news people on NBC and MSNBC do say on a regular basis to remember they ARE owned by GE. That allows us to make up our own minds about how skewed they are going to be. All those ads that GE runs about the safe fracking and how clean natural gas is, is a waste of money to me, since I know their agenda. So as far as I'm concerned most people that watch NBC stations do so because they chose the less conservative network and are aware of GE being their owners.