Reply #19: So, it's just coincidence that all corporate owned media all spew the same RepubliCON talking points

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at the same time and about the same issues? They pretend to be in competition with each other and some more independent non-corporate owned media actually does compete. But the corporate owners of all the media sit on each other's boards, marry each other's wives, send their kids to the same finishing schools and they all vacation at Martha's Vineyard. They don't compete as we define the term. They slice up the viewership pie and set boundaries and limits on who can report what.

If they truly competed, then we would have known there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that Bin Laden had absolutely nothing to do with Iraq. But we never heard of it on the corporate news until it no longer mattered. The same when Obama wanted to prevent Fox from coming to press conferences because we all know Fox is simply a propaganda arm of the RepubliCONS. But no, all the news organizations pretended outrage that one of their fellow "reports" would be excluded. If they were truly in competition with each other, they would have sat back and allowed Fox to fight it out with the administration.

No, our corporate owned media is NOT a truly competitive market as is perceived by the public. It is an incestuous group of monopoly holders that is owned completely by RepubliCONS and RepubliCON-lite oligarchs.