Reply #34: We get news and information from the internet, but we are still a less than insignificant

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fraction of a percentage of the whole.

IIRC, up through the 1950s something like 96% of American households subscribed to newspapers and each town had a choice of at least two different competing newspapers, larger cities had had many more, necessitating a difference in coverage and slant. Radio was successfully monopolized in that day and they are doing it again.

Yellow journalism is as old as the printing press, the Faux News of the day, but there were alternatives and they were utilized. Today we are indifferent, indiscriminate, and uninterested as a whole. Add television (drastically inferior to radio in that even radio utilizes the imagination, an active participation) into the mix and you have a thoroughly controlled media with a uniform message.

They do indeed hate the tubes, even though it is not truly significant yet, and that is why we are seeing it taken over by the same corporations that control all other media. The internet and especially the WWW is the new printing press and they will not allow it to escape their control. We are truly in the very beginning, embryonic if you will, stage of the next revolution in human communication and already we are seeing it stifled and controlled by the PTB.

MSN is a prime example. It is so proprietary that those of us that do not use M$ technology (if you can even call it that) simply cannot use it. Major media websites require the use of proprietary browsers and intrusions into the users systems to such a degree they are unusable to non-M$ (and it's subsidiary Apple) consumers without opening our systems to their intrusions.