Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Media Suddenly Take a Dangerous Turn
Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Media Suddenly Take a Dangerous Turn
His posting of a video of a man cursing at Joe Scarborough sends a broader message: If elected, he’ll use state power to come after countless other Americans.
His posting of a video of a man cursing at Joe Scarborough sends a broader message: If elected, he’ll use state power to come after countless other Americans.
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The media and the oligarchy need to become self-aware of the threats in front of their faces. Maybe then the former will return to doing its job for us and our safety and not for the latter.
We used to have laws that decentralized control of media. An entity could only own a certain number of newspapers, tv stations, or radio stations. There were incentives for smaller news companies to insure that there was competition in each market. Congress kept chipping away at those laws letting larger companies buy up more and more of the market, allowing mergers that restricted competition. Now radio is nearly a monopoly, TV and newspapers are oligarchies. The Internet fell into an oligarchy disturbingly quickly.
The only way to get the media serving the people again is to break up the big companies and restore the guardrails that protected and supported small local companies.
I hate to say it, but that will never happen. Politicians only chase the money, and the money wants to keep their monopolies and oligarchies.
These videos are more dreadful than most. Nothing works quite like that to make you realize just how prepared and aimed cable news is. When I see shit like "Russia's state-run news agency says" I wonder if CBS, NBC, CNN, and FOX are our equivalent when something from one of them is posted abroad.