MAD AS HELL: Bad Luck, Bad Night as We Lose Olbermann [View All]

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Olbermann’s swift departure by NBC/Comcast should serve as a wake-up call, for progressives. They could soon find themselves systematically silenced, just like Olbermann, with no voice for their political interests. While Conservatives have built a vast media infrastructure—from newspapers, publishing houses, and ownership of 90% of AM radio stations to a major TV network serving purely Republican Party purposes- progressives have treated the media as a low priority.

In time, unless liberals work to build media counterparts to the ever increasingly popular personalities on Fox News and to talk radio titans like Rush Limbaugh, their voices will be no more than cries in the corporate right-wing wilderness. The mainstream media in America is now held by six corporate conglomerates—- Westinghouse/CBS, Walt Disney/ABC, News Corp/FOX, Time-Warner TBS, Viacom, and GE/NBC Universal. Not a liberal outfit in the bunch.

This latest purchase of NBC by Comcast and the elimination of Keith Olbermann are prime examples of the inexorable movement of the nation toward a feudal Corporatocracy maintained, in large part, by complete mass media control.

“Good luck” is right. As a free press slowly disappears and dissenters become voiceless, we will need it.

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