Reply #98: If you're not paranoid, you haven't been paying attention.

[Uncle Joe]

The corporate media is nothing but a Matrix with a self-serving agenda, they don't represent the American People, they represent corporations that sell advertising to them.

Corporations are their clients, the people are just their customers or consumers to be sold, and there is a major difference in owed fiduciary responsibility of the two.

ie; If you ever once in your life believed for one minute that Al Gore actually claimed to have invented the Internet, it's only because the corporate media as mostly a single conglomerate promoted that slander and libel from the morning breakfast shows to the prime time dinner news to the late night snack comedians.

This was an out right lie perpetuated without remorse or conscious on the American People by their "trusted" news sources and I have no doubt hundreds of thousands of people are dead today because of it, the world coming closer to global warming climate change tipping points which threaten life as we know it, the melting dollar, gas going through the roof, etc. etc.

I believe their primary motivation for this slander and libel was precisely because Al Gore was the primary political champion for opening up the Internet to the American People and the corporate media saw this as a threat to their monopoly on information. As the Internet grew in power and influence, all they could see or care about was their gradual loss of power, money and influence as the new medium took over. So they played Zeus and his vulture(s) to Gore's Prometheus only instead of chowing down on eternal growing liver, they feasted on a good man's credibility and integrity while promoting a far lesser man to the most powerful job in the land. I believe had they given credit or due for Gore's vision and dedication to the American People and the democratization of information, he would have won in a land slide too large for the neocons to steal.

In conclusion, I don't believe for one minute, they've given up trying to control information so as to distort reality and brain wash the American People all to suit their own corporate loving agenda. They will do whatever they can to diminish the power of the people's voice via the Internet even if it means putting out a relatively new website sympathetic to their bidding and then promote them on television as if they reflected the Internet.