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Owning the Airwaves
Oct. 2nd, 2007 07:43 pmBy now, the myth of the so-called liberal media ought to be well staked through the heart. While some few reporters and content creators are in fact liberal in their outlooks, essentially every media outlet's ownership, and therefore its editorial policies and directions, support the right wing. They will report on Hillary's cleavage or Edwards' haircuts with distaste while overlooking or laughing off as amusing the insanity of Rudy Giuliani, and while employing, at high salaries no less, the bigoted and lying likes of Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, and the hero of wingnut welfare himself, Mr. Gasbag Rush Limbaugh.
This is not going to change until there is a shift in the ownership of media outlets. I know that this is an outrageously expensive and difficult task (given that I work in the investment banking industry, I have a pretty good idea of the finances that will be required), but it is necessary for those who want a change in direction to actually accumulate significant fractions of stock in the corporations that control the media.
I don't know which is the most vulnerable target. I do know that it won't happen overnight, nor without some pushback by the gangs that have for so long made easy livings at the expense of truth and freedom. However, it's the only long-term solution that is going to work. Without it (and without enacting net neutrality into law), freedom of speech will look like Gilligan going up against Muhammed Ali in his prime.
I don't know how to make this happen. Talk about this, perhaps; put the idea into ears that might understand, like some of the larger left-wing bloggers who can then get the word out bigger. Begin organizing investment clubs for the purpose, maybe. I cannot give and am not giving investment advice, but I can recognize reality when I see it. If we want to take back the country, this has got to happen. Because otherwise Rush will continue to call soldiers fakes unless they agree with him; Coulter will continue to push her neo-Nazi agenda that includes thuggery aimed at government members who disagree with her; and all of the liars, cheats, and dissemblers setting the national agenda away from the Constitution will continue to do so -- and to get paid well for it.
It's time for a change.
This is not going to change until there is a shift in the ownership of media outlets. I know that this is an outrageously expensive and difficult task (given that I work in the investment banking industry, I have a pretty good idea of the finances that will be required), but it is necessary for those who want a change in direction to actually accumulate significant fractions of stock in the corporations that control the media.
I don't know which is the most vulnerable target. I do know that it won't happen overnight, nor without some pushback by the gangs that have for so long made easy livings at the expense of truth and freedom. However, it's the only long-term solution that is going to work. Without it (and without enacting net neutrality into law), freedom of speech will look like Gilligan going up against Muhammed Ali in his prime.
I don't know how to make this happen. Talk about this, perhaps; put the idea into ears that might understand, like some of the larger left-wing bloggers who can then get the word out bigger. Begin organizing investment clubs for the purpose, maybe. I cannot give and am not giving investment advice, but I can recognize reality when I see it. If we want to take back the country, this has got to happen. Because otherwise Rush will continue to call soldiers fakes unless they agree with him; Coulter will continue to push her neo-Nazi agenda that includes thuggery aimed at government members who disagree with her; and all of the liars, cheats, and dissemblers setting the national agenda away from the Constitution will continue to do so -- and to get paid well for it.
It's time for a change.
