The capitalist bourgeois media and Olbermann/Matthews

[murdoch]

This story comes from a Murdoch rag, the New York Post, so even the Fox News crowd couldn't deny the truth of this:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09092008/gossip/pagesix/keith_demoted___but_with_a_pay_raise_128204.htm

One knowledgeable source told us: "Shareholders were calling up NBC and GE - a lot, maybe thousands. They were saying, 'What the is wrong with these guys?' . . . Chris Matthews just got stuck in the middle of it all."

This is the same NBC where diehard Republican Jack Welsh was giving orders about calling Florida for Bush on election night 2000 (while Bush's cousin Ellis was calling it over at Fox News)

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/sep/11/news/mn-44585
Mr. Welch was observed standing behind Dr. Gawiser with his hand on his shoulder, asking why NBC was not also calling the election for Bush.

These are the networks that "report" nonsense like that Ahmadinejad said ( http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=israel+wiped-off-the-map+site%3Amsnbc.com ) that Israel should be wiped off the map (he never said that), or that Russia invaded a sovereign country (when it was Georgia that invaded South Ossetia, which it never had control over in this century or the last one) and so on.

GE is making a ton of money selling engines for the Black Hawks and Apache helicopters that are flying over Iraq and Afghanistan.

This is how it is. Our airwaves are controlled by a handful of billionaires. Waxman banging his gavel will do nothing except maybe moderating the obviousness of these things. Most civilized countries have their airwaves controlled by the government, not the parasite rentier heirs who live their lives of luxury from the sweat of the brow of people who work for a living.

This is just another exposure of the system for what it is. I don't even see Olbermann as a hero unlike many here - he was denouncing Hugo Chavez a few weeks ago and he has said other things I disagree with. But he was not jumping in step like so-called newsmen are required to nowadays, so the "shareholders" (the richest 1% of Americans own 42.2% of all outstanding stock, the richest 10% own 84.4% of all outstanding stock - http://www.federalreserve.gov/PUBS/oss/oss2/papers/wgt95.pdf ) threw him over the side just like Dan Rather was thrown overboard. Who is getting fired for lying about what Ahmadinejad says? Who is getting fired for neglecting to mention that Georgia invaded South Ossetia, and South Ossetians are thrilled Russia is protecting them from such attacks?

[EV_Ares]

1. This is the best analysis yet with links of what our corporate media is doing to us all here

and if this country does not wake up of which I fear they won't, our basic freedom of the press and where we are given the truth by real not made up reporting, facts of the world and everything will be gone.

The other part of all this is the dumbing down of American. Those 1% who control the wealth in this country and now the airwaves also do not want an educational system where all of our children are getting a good education. Why? All you have to do is look into how so many are either buying into what we are being told, do not pay any attention to what is going on in government, etc. Only the wealthy are going to be receiving advanced educations in this country. These things all go hand in hand.

K&R.