“..A million people on the streets.of Bolivia protesting the destruction of the Amazon and demanding action! Why is this not on the news? ..”
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When i first read Manufacturing Consent back in the late 80’s, my NormanRockwell view of America was shattered. The MSM was bad back then. It was propaganda Back then.
But now, its beyond-words-bad. As the media corporate-consolidation has been running its course. Corpse eating Corpse. The natural trajectory of corporate-capitalism. Corpse eating Corpse.
Back in the 80’s there were leftist-books warning about the consequences of the American-Media in the hands of dozens of corpse.
Now, we are down to what?, about SIX. Six corpse tell the people ‘the news.’
Poor Biosphere. The Dolphins, Whales, Bears, Bees, Butterflies and Newts didnt deserve this….
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“The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.”
― Gore Vidal
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas,
i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”
― Karl Marx, The German Ideology