Reply #44: "The US is a representative democracy" how do you know if everything under the sun is classified and [View All]

[Uncle Joe]

the corporate media are most intent on feeding pablum to the people?

Being dumbed down as to political reality and world events does a major disservice to the American People in preventing them from making informed, intelligent deliberations when the time comes for the people to vote for their representative agents.

There are lives at risk but I would wager far more have been sacrificed due to major miscalculations by a populous; largely ignorant as to the reality of world events, at one time 70+% believed Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 because the corporate media brain washed the American People into believing that ludicrous notion in spite of the overwhelming evidence, logic and common sense arguing to the contrary.

You can't elect good people to pass intelligent law best benefiting the nation when the public is continuously deceived or misinformed by their major information sources.

The only reason Wikileaks matters is because our so called "fourth estate" aka; corporate media; have so egregiously dropped the ball in keeping government accountable to the people while enabling their corporate clients and owners to dominate "We the people's" government.

You talk about Assange making a million and half; that's chump change, how many tens of billions will the corporate media make from selling out Universal Single Payer coverage as just one example of their obvious conflict of interest.

Whatever Assange; is, hero or villain, it's the message that matters, but the powers that be; staying true to their modus operandi would rather attack the messenger because that's so much easier than addressing the message(s). It's no different than the right wing's attack against Al Gore as being justification for ignoring the overwhelming scientific evidence warning of Global Warming and the results over the long term could be just as fatal.