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I also think that the lying, obstructionist corporate media cannot be ignored any longer, and it cannot be pretended any more that they were giving all sides a fair hearing. This has become a hugely threatening thing, all unto itself. No longer are they reporters covering stories; now they are mouthpieces for the sponsors, using clinical psychological studies on the effects of duration-of-camera-time, facial expressions with statements, on and on to the most minute detail, to trick because they cannot convince. Since that bastard Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine (great article in Feb. "Extra!"), no one can even get a public word out about anything; like we are gagged. We can't even tell what the true nature of our society is anymore, so cut off are we from the signs of things by these censors. You can't even feel the "sense" of an era anymore, or how things change or come and go. With no public expression, but only corporate propaganda masking as "trends," "opinions," etc., you feel as if you are living in a vaccuum, and not even in the wide-open outside. Everything is contained, corporate-regulated, owned by them. It is like a neverending infomercial from your boss piped in to your place of work.
Everything we do is jeered, as if by magic, everything they do is cheered or excused, on cue. People, even on this website, have stated things I know were not true but have been repeated by the media so casually, as if an obvious fact, and all real explanations so censored, that it is the only thing that has ever existed to a lot of people. The very sense of reality has been shifted to a corporate structure, as the media has become an overarching influence. So intrusive has it all become, that you don't even judge them as a separate part of the corporate, big-business structure, but instead, as they intended, think "with" or "through" them to a subject, and accept their version of it as if it were "ourselves." This is only now beginning to change, as people's heads explode. Even people you would think would know better, though, like Phil Donahue, never understood the hatred against media that many now feel, and always parodied it. Maybe not anymore, since they then killed Donahue, MSNBC's top-rated program; so much for "profit ruling all."
People have to understand what a vicious attacker the media is, and what is it really a front for: the entire global corporate world. It puts on this happy, smiley, grotesque-close-up face, but only as long as we were nothing but customers; excuse me, official corporate change--consumers. As soon as you try to get air time on your own public airwaves, like a citizen of your own country, watch out. They ultimately can't stop us from thinking what we want, but that was never the threat. What all their lying and censorship does, though, is make it impossible for us the people to connect with each other and organize, and therefore we are thwarted and cannot accomplish anything in our own country anymore. For those of you who think, "Well, we connect on this website," ask yourselves: After all the exposes on the 2004 Presidential election, almost all on the internet, what good did it do?
I think the media has, now, to be referred to as the corporate oppressor that it is, and stop thinking that you can "make peace" with this back-stabber. Don't take on its ways, or its techniques--you won't win, and it will only further their influence, rather than attacking and opposing it. For example, studying their "framing," rather than attacking it as lying and not telling facts. We are all going to lose ourselves completely in this ad campaign Hell.
Anyone who has thought about this must by now be almost panicking at the thought of how to get rid of this. How will this be solved?
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