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In reply to the discussion: Rush flushers seeking to hold Limbaugh accountable for hate speech are crippling the radio industry [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)We are posting on this message board for free. Well, not really. We pay to post from our computers, internet charges and membership donation, if we made one which is not a profit on our part.
We also donate our time and effect, which does cost us, but we're going up against those who are paid by the second by these ______.
The notion that commerical speech is representative of free speech is an offense to me. Commerical speech is paid for, and the owner picks the tune that the speakers will play, but we give these marionettes on a string the same respect as someone who is more our equal, who really wants to change things. It gets no respect from me now.
I don't trust much 'media' as it is known, on or off line, because of the ownership media, and the owners censor anything that doesn't serve their agenda. It's so common, so well infused in society, the people they hire self-censor themselves to get the job and continue to do so in order to maintain employment.
You made a good analogy there, but rather dark thoughts, huh. I expect we can still go forward, each in our way to effect what is closest to us. Precincts, community meetings, etc.
Those who fell for entertainment news, were led there by years of entertainment to see themselves as being trendy, smart and now self-righteous. I have no innate disrespect for the variety of ideas put out daily, I don't demand anyone believe what I do, just as I refuse to believe what others claim I must.
If the entertainment industry owners confined itself to that, and not infected the news, and even then, if they'd been benign, that would have been one thing. Instead it's promoted hate to keep us at each other's throats. Our part in that is our willingness to others.
The standard broadcast airhead is just doing a job, like flipping burgers. No depth, just reading a script, extremely happy to be overpaid for doing it. But the more successful ones as Rush and Beck, I hold in a different category because they have interfered with the lives of persons they do not know.
It is the ulitmate in vanity, IMO, to judge or even discuss, what is going on inside people's bedrooms, inside a woman's body who they do not know, or demand obedience to religion or ideology or not. The way I really feel about them is not suitable for public reading.