Reply #28: It's their job. They're well-paid to support status quo tools...

[warren pease]

Their corporate massuhs will absolutely not permit them to ask questions that could lead to uncomfortable moments for their pet reactionary corporate suck-ups.

People think it's all about ratings and share and ad rates and "quality sponsors." Nonsense. Their owners couldn't care less whether they turn a profit or bleed red ink for years. There's a lot more going on than just getting immediate cash.

The intrinsic value of harnessing the greatest propaganda medium in recorded history, and using it to pound home the message that the solid status quo is always better than the unpredictability of real change that moves society away from the status quo. Certainly the rich are fully invested in that theme and they have the overstuffed off-shore accounts to prove it.

Naturally, they want to preserve the system that made them rich fully intact. They also must discourage the other 98 percent -- those who bear the lash marks the status quo inflicts on the peasants -- from wanting any sort of change at all because TV teaches them that change is scary and uncertain.

The six gluttonous mega holding companies who control between 82 and 94 percent of everything Americans see, hear and read from mainstream outlets (amazingly known as "trusted sources") didn't go on their monopolistic buying sprees to add more revenue streams.

It's probably impossible to measure in dollars the real value of owning and controlling their own dedicated propaganda machine, and which is welcome in hundreds of millions of homes each day. But it's a good bet that a TV network that constantly loses money is still worth far more as a message machine than as a revenue source.

How many hundreds of billions of dollars do you suppose the rich have acquired by assigning their personal bullshit generators to endlessly pound home the stream of pure bullshit that tells viewers: status quo - very good; change - very bad. As with any other big lie, this one seems to have worked out pretty well.

The fact that there's even a debate on the idea of giving Wall St. criminals what little remains in the US treasury -- no strings attached, no higher reviewing authority, nothing at all for those victimized by these thieves -- that there's even one sub-human asshole willing to defend the largest single ripoff in history...

But there's hundreds of thousands of them -- in congress, among the insufferable TV pundits and, of course, in the banking and financial "services" business -- and they're not remotely embarrassed to take the side of the massuhs against the American people.

Everybody not named Pollyanna knows the beltway pols have been bought and sold so many times they can't even keep track of which of their "campaign donors" they're working for on any given day. And nobody really seems to think that's even a little weird -- a so-called democracy based on prostitution and bribery.

That's because there are also tens of millions of Americans whose brains have been blasted with so much propaganda they've turned into a suety pulp of dead cells. These people celebrate their own stupidity by advocating for the massuhs and against their own best interests.

That's how it is in the parallel universe, where so many people shoot themselves in the foot so many time that it's amazing the entire country isn't in wheelchairs.

It's one thing to get people to sit down, shut up and take what they're given. It's another to suck them into supporting status quo corporate malevolence while they applaud their own screwing.

This wide a gap between fact and fantasy isn't sustainable in a country where the people are allegedly in control. Meaning they're supposed to know enough about the issues of the day to be able to share ideas and opinions on something a bit more important than the soul-crushing angst of select starlets and tarts, d-class celebrity fuck-ups and public pukings captured on video, lipstick on pigs, angels dancing on the heads of pins and all the rest of the junk that's mostly replaced useful information in the former land of the free.

I know for sure that if this kind of "journalism" is allowed to continue -- the truth becoming more and more irrelevant and meaningless by the month, unorthodox facts suppressed, buried or ignored -- we're looking at a nail the size of a railroad spike driven into the heart of the great democratic experiment.

And there's the goddamn Bushies, waiting for the death rattle so they can rob another corpse of anything that's not welded to the earth's core.


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