Comcast partners with teabaggers to bring new right-wing broadcast network online

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Run time: 01:09 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFi-IXPjArs   Posted on YouTube: April 06, 2010 By YouTube Member: RightNetwork Views on YouTube: 254   Posted on DU: April 17, 2010 By DU Member: Amerigo Vespucci Views on DU: 514

 

Comcast partners with teabaggers to bring new right-wing broadcast network online

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/comcast-partners-bring-new-right-wing-broad

Comcast is fighting its way through a battle to acquire NBC and related assets (including MSNBC) without being deemed a monopoly (which they are, and should be barred from owning NBC). For a preview of how dangerous it is to have one corporation control access to the Internet and cable TV, have a look at their new joint venture: RightNetwork.

Check out the slick ads, the Kelsey Grammer intro, and please have a look at their debut reality series called "Running".

What isn't apparent at first blush becomes apparent while watching the promo. They call it a reality show, but it's really just a big teabagger campaign ad wrapped up in a half-hour broadcast and packaged for the web, mobile and cable broadcast.

They have a slick little "lookbook" you can download (PDF) for an overview of what they're about. Nice piece of marketing literature. They're marketing themselves as the "anywhere, anytime" network for "engaged people".

On television, through partners including Comcast, RightNetwork delivers programming on demand that enables our audience to watch what they want, when they want. Everything Right, at the click of a remote. the lineup focuses on entertainment with pro-America, pro-business, pro-military sensibilities — compelling content that inspires action, invites a response, and influences the national conversation.

There's this quote from Ed Snider, Chairman of Comcast-Spectacor:

We’re creating a welcome place for millions and millions of Americans who’ve been looking for an entertainment network and media channel that reflects their point-of-view. Rightnetwork will be the perfect platform to entertain, inform and Connect with the American majority about what’s right in the world.

When they launch, they'll have lots of content, since they've been embedded with the Tea Party Express for its tour across the country. The YouTube channel has video from key tea party locations.

They don't even try to hide it anymore. It's just outright, blatant partisanship and propaganda, brought to you by Comcast and the US Chamber of Commerce.

(h/t The Political Carnival)

[nightrain]

1. even more reason to not support Comcast. Disengage from cable, you'll feel better ...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. I haven't had cable for two years...

...and the day I returned my cable box to Comcast, it felt great. The price just kept going up and up and up and I got sick of it. I miss turning on the TV every now and then but life tends to offer a bumper crop of alternatives.

:patriot:

[nightrain]

4. AFAIK, other than a few shows on PBS, TV is really low-quality diversion...

But, as an addiction, it's hard to break for most people...

[mr_liberal]

3. If its non-partisan, if they try to

make it for democrats and independents and libertarians too I think it would be a good thing. It'd be a good thing for Fox News to have some competition. Right now they have too much influence becuase they have the right of center audience all to themselves.

[november3rd]

5. One voice

The trademark of democracy is that it requires freedom of expression by participants in the democratic process. One of the strategies for circumventing this necessity is to overload the airwaves with one single voice in particular, not necessarily to silence the others, but just to reduce the volume of anything but the authorities' message. Media consolidation into four main networks made this much easier for big corporations and conservative think tanks to buy up all the advertising time, and deregulation makes it easier for those with all the money to control PBS and CSPAN. That leaves public access, and TimeWarner and Comcast are working overtime to shut that down.

If you have a lot of big money stations and networks all saying the same thing, people are afraid to believe or evoke any different viewpoints, let alone think for themselves. That's what BushCo did to promote the Iraq War.

If we don't fight the FCC and promote public access television--while demanding an open internet--we're going to be back in 1935. Rush will be playing on every station and if you don't hate our "enemies" and love the military, you don't love your country.

Public access tv. Demand public access!