KKKarl met with Jack Welch (GE) in 1999 - and a cartel was born

[deminks]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/6820

Restore Fairness, Return to Reality
by Patricia Goldsmith

Forget Imus. All this fuss will be just so much wasted outrage unless we use it to direct public attention to the big picture: the way the media information cartel has rigged journalism in this country. We need to agitate to break up and re-regulate the media, beginning with restoration of the fairness doctrine.

Ever since the fairness doctrine went down for good in 1986, hate and misinformation have taken over the airwaves, beginning with Rush Limbaugh on the radio and spreading to TV. As Rep. Louise Slaughter said in a 2004 interview with Bill Moyers, after fairness was defeated,

AM radio rose. It wasn't even gradual, Bill. I mean, almost immediately. And I should point out to you that when we tried to reinstate again in '93, one of the reasons we couldn't was that Rush Limbaugh had organized this massive uprising against it, calling it "The Hush Rush Law."

(snip)

Welch told associates that he enlisted two members of the GE board to assist him in shaping the coverage of the election by other news organizations. . . . They quietly encouraged the executives of the mainstream media organizations to rethink the relationship between news divisions and business organizations.

(snip)

If you're still in doubt, please tune in to PBS on April 25 to see Bill Moyers lay out the Record of Iraq War Lies. David Swanson, who saw an advance copy of the program, writes, "Spending that 90 minutes on this will actually save you time, because you'll never watch television news again-not even on PBS, which comes in for its share of criticism."

edited to add link

Link to diary on Kos:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/21/17013/3139

[Gloria]

1. "Hush Rush Law" there goes that framing again.....Our side will

never catch up to the other side...don't they even make an effort to frame things as aggressively??

[BrklynLiberal]

2. You are right. George Lakoff must be listened to!!!

Framing is vital to getting the message across to the people.

Sadly, the majority are like dogs, they respond only to way the words sound, not to their actual meaning.

[ShockediSay]

3. The fact that GE was mabye THE biggest war contractor

might have some connection here.

I remember early on when things were going so good in Iraq, that Jeff Immelt was practically bragging GE had over a billion $ in new orders from Iraq. No doubt it was US that paid.

[bleever]

4. Karl Rove's word was a good investment.

If he said his candidate would win the election, they believed him.

They weren't even worried about how he'd deliver it; they just knew that when he said it would happen, they were talking to a guy with his hands on all the important levers.

Future liability, and criminal liability, was "off the table".

Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are joined together by their willingness to keep doubling down, backed by the bank.

One word: Silverado. And this time we're all watching. Americans, and people all across the globe who've been insulted, degraded, or, god forbid, tortured and killed by these people are ready to say that the world has had enough.

Bank on it.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread deminks

[yurbud]

6. remember Waxman asking for tape of Welch tirade in newsroom on election night?

since he didn't have subpoena power at the time, he didn't get it.

He should ask again.

[deminks]

8. Yes, I do remember.

http://www.house.gov/waxman/issues/issues_other_nbc_elec_cong_says_9_10_01.htm

and I agree, maybe he should ask again.

[depakid]

7. The corporate media is public enemy #1

and divestment and re-regulation needs to be at the VERY TOP of the agenda, should the Dems ever regain the executive.

Considering the low opinion most people have of the media these days, this would be very popular legislation and/or administrative regulation. Unless and until this is accomplished, very little positive is going to happen on any front.