Reply #28: The Media Now ONLY Reflects Corporations

[Hidden Stillness]

There is nothing "mainstream" about this current media, it is made up entirely of rich people who are far more corporate and conservative than the general public, far more anti-regulation, far more concerned about the stock market, totally unconcerned about the unemployment rate or the sales tax, etc., an extremely rich, small crowd totally cut off from the general population and its concerns. I also think it makes people sound asinine to refer to the "mainstream media," as if they themselves are just too groovy and superior for it, "eclectic," etc. Not a good appearance: that would be the "special" people, as opposed to the "sheeple," no doubt.

Calling them the corporate media, as they are, also reminds people clearly, what the situation/problem is. The public has been gradually cut out of the public forum that the media used to be, now no longer heard at all. There is no variety of opinions heard on the media anymore, no speakers who did not come from some pre-approved corporate list of consultants. You cannot get access to talk shows to give opinions anymore, there is no local coverage of news and other events; they do nothing unless it will make them huge amounts of money, or advance their corporate class's propaganda. There actually is no connection of the population to the commercial media anymore; it only expresses the corporate/business perspective, TO us. There are no regions of the country anymore, or age groups, there is no social/National history to remember and live by; there is ONLY the "eternal present" of constant corporate re-telling of things you once knew otherwise, and constant selling and complete commercialization of not only culture, but nature, and thought itself. Now there is not even an "outside world," the "rest of the world," that used to exist outside of the vulgar, extreme close-up that you can't look past anymore. There is no longer a larger, populated world, where facts are facts, the world has a memory, you do things for moral reasons, and consensus is good--where there is a common good. Now, everything is a narrowed-down one-way-street, where there is only one voice, all propaganda, "spin," hysterical visuals to kill your own thinking, and where it all comes from the single source of concentrated global-corporate ownership.

It is only even barely a "media" anymore. All it is, is the corporate mouthpiece, and the attempt to control the world from a very small number of corporate boardrooms. It is not even part of society.