Nance Greggs: Ain’t Buying It

M$M has to keep it close

And as usual, it is not only entertaining, but right on the money. I've missed seeing these a lot. "et cete-fuckin’-ra"...love it. Thanks for posting, ma'am.

the public to be misinformed, in addition to ratings concerns.

Most of our media is owned by giant corporations and it's fair to say that giant corporations generally look out for the bottom line more than anything else. Some corporations look out for the bottom line by donating to candidates that are sympathetic to their specific industry needs and/or who are sympathetic to the needs of corporations, CEOs, and Boardmembers in general. Others spend unlimited money on lobbying or spend on Superpacs anonymously.

But corporations that own media are in a unique position. Not only can they exert power through their ability to throw money around in an effort to sway voters and legislators undemocratically....but they can actually shape public opinion directly by selective reporting, programming, biased reporting, false equivalency analysis, etc.

It's certainly what Fox News is all about (previously named GOPTV by Roger Ailes in a proposal to Nixon on how to strengthen the party). And I don't believe for a minute that the largest defense contractor in the world doesn't ask its subsidiary media outlets to help support the home team. The sociopathic code of corporate ethics demands nothing less than 110% effort to increase profits. By any means. They wouldn't pass up opportunities to shape public opinion.

90% of talk radio is conservative, pounding the airwaves 24/7. Is this because of ratings...when america is not 90% conservative?

No....this was the vision 40 years ago when conservative think tanks and media consolidation were viewed as keys in the effort to consistently win elections when the GOP is on the wrong side of issues that concern mainstream America. It's how you can convince a fair number of voters that Obama is an elite, out of touch candidate trying to buy the election while Romney is looking out for the average guy.

The damage being done to public discourse can't just be the result of a ratings race....I believe there is a strong corporate directive to push information, elections, legislation, and the courts further and further to the right even when the american public is moving to the left on most issues. The basis of a strong democracy is a well informed public (Lincoln).....We have neither and it's not because of sweeps week.

Corporations pay all of the networks to manufacture consent.

They don't care whether we watch or even believe them, they are there to create the idea that we are all following along with this corporate takeover of our government.

As long as everyone else thinks someone else is believing it, they will just go along with it too.

The media no longer serves the public interest as per the terms of their FCC license.

They work for the highest bidder, the Koch brothers.

Thanks for the thread, DemocratsForProgress.