Originally posted by pigboy7:
Originally posted by BOSSHOGFREE:
Am I the only one who sees the excessive irony of Democrats in our country vilifying the moral/religious leaders of our nation for trying to impose their views onto our society whike at the same time the left is daily attempting to impose their own views or morality?
Its one of the biggest scams perpetrated on our nation using "social progression" to further divide and tear apart our people building a stranglehold on a broken two party system. Insuring a moderate party will never be the voice of our country. Horrific to think about.
Boss, I tend to be in the middle of everything, not on the left. I feel as if I need to state that before I go on with my post because around here, anything that doesn't side with the GOP tends to be looked at as a bed wetting liberal. I have a very passionate view on the media as a whole and politics as well, even though this media stuff ties it all together, but I'll leave the politics part for another board. However, my views on the media really boil down to one thing....money. Money rules the world, especially in this country. Therefore, everything is typically financially driven, good or bad. It just depends on which side you are own and the media is more than happy to help lend you a public relations hand, of course, for their fair share of the pie. Who really controls the media? Is it the so called "liberal media" that those on the right complain about controlled by Hollywood and liberal special interests? Is Fox News controlled by the Republican Party? If you believe any of these generalizations you are dead wrong and the truth will shock you. Major
multinational corporations, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and Saudi Princes, all hell bent on protecting their own interests, choose what you will see on the nightly news and trick you into believing it is unbiased reporting. For example.... Regardless of what they make you believe, Boss, all of the major news outlets contributed heavily to George W. Bush in both 2000 and 2004, so any argument that they are controlled by liberals evaporates quickly. In this case they all supported the candidate that promised to allow consolidation of multiple media companies, hence furthering their agenda of media takeover and ensuring to their clients a bigger footprint into every household. In todays world of the lazy, we gladly let everyone else tell us what is right or wrong or how to feel about everything or what anything means. We do not fact check anything and there hasn't been any sense of "truth" without agenda to the "news" in decades. The mainstream media knows this and they promote this to their clients. When it comes to politics or civil matters, it's all a bunch of propagandist info to support ones political views or the corporate interests of clients in the name of Capitalism. Just keep those dollars flowing with TV driven adds to sway support or opposition toward anything their clients and big supporters agree/disagree with. It's all about money. Corporations control the airways, our state and federal leaders, the media, etc... That is the fact of the matter. Not saying it is wrong, just that people should research their news and there should be more of a Hippocratic oath to what is reported on the daily "News." But, that would prohibit those in positions of power from getting what they want all the time, and they won't stand for that. So, we are where we are today because of that. You pay the money, you get what you want 99% of the time and any bad pub you get from it is far outweighed by the financial benefit you gained from it. Example.......The Iraq War. Agree or disagree, you can not argue that a few companies made out like billionaires over that war and oh, btw, they happen to be connected closely to the administration. I'm not bashing on Bush, just pointing out this is how it works.
Here is where I am going to disagree with you. But, don't believe me, go look it up for yourself and see who owns the airways and TV networks and how many households they reach on a daily basis and how big the "right" owned media footprint is and how their outlets dwarf everything else. It's about 3:1. Also, look up the Council On Foreign Relations and tell me what their goal or mission is and get back to me and tell me if you still feel the same about the so called liberal media. The Council's sole mission is to own and manipulate the "News" to bring about a new world order of corporate control of everything. That is not my opinion, it is stated in their mission statement and again, it is comprised of mostly right-wing members and contributors. Out of the top 20 broadcasting companies, 18 contributed heavily to Bush and have right leaning agendas. Again, don't believe me, its' out there for you to find.
The very news stories that you are fed by the mainstream media are manipulated to mirror the public relations campaigns of companies that operate nuclear plants, sprawling theme parks that gobble up wetlands, defense contractors, oil companies, social media sites, investments companies and even Saudi Princes. Everything corporate has public relations and they advertise and support the mainstream media. It's how they pay the bills. Of course they are going to do whatever they are told and present it in a way that sways public opinion to their product, needs or desires. Remember the old "Outer Limits" TV shows where the announcer says "We control everything you see and hear, the vertical, the horizontal," etc? The corporate controlled news media controls all you see and hear. There is no freedom without freedom of the press and the quicker we as a people make our government do something about that, the better off everyone would be. We might actually get some sort of truth out of the news instead of constant manipulation by agenda.
