Reply #14

Instead of government suppressing free speech on media, it's corporations and their heirarchical structure is a rigid pyramid. Democracies are structured as an inverse pyramid. That is what public participation and cooperation is about.

The mainstream media is controlled by the same companies that benefit from a number of not very nice things being done in our names. The corporations, or rather, fascists, as by virtue of auctioning off the airwaves and ending the Fairness Doctrine by throwing the crumb to the people called CSPAN, are only going to allow dissent within a small box, to gain the viewership and influence more people to their view.

I applaud Maher's piece as being more honest, but he too, can be driven off the air just like Stewart and Colbert for not walking the line. Cable was his escape when fired for mocking. He'd stepped on the foot of the big fat MIC elephant in the living room no one can talk about, and with more fans than God. It's difficult to find anyone who has not, in some way, been involved in it. And so it goes.