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| CNN Idiot: Internet is killing the Mass Brainwashing of the Past |
| 2006-07-13 |
| Comments in bracket by Jan Lamprecht, the site owner. [Oh boo hoo hoo, this idiot on CNNMoney is bemoaning the loss of "Mass culture". Translation: Choice means that the masses can no longer be BRAINWASHED by the FEW AGAINST THEIR WILL THROUGH LACK OF CHOICE! Yes, that's what this jerk is really crying about. It's actually an argument that runs against the excellent analysis of Professor Adam Smith in 1776. Adam Smith showed, in a long and detailed analysis that the Free Market produced the lowest prices and was the most efficient mechanism. If the Free Market is good for economics, I see no reason why it can't be good for the media and for ideas and for a (supposed) free society. Radio, TV and the Newspapers were dominated by a few oligopolies for decades and it was a prime instrument in the dissemination of propaganda by ALL countries on Earth. Now, suddenly, "choice is bad" for politics. No you idiot! "Choice is bad" because it means the whole world isn't being fed a lot of Liberalism or Communism. It means people can actually be Conservative or something else if the hell they want to. So he whines that the newspaper is closing its Moscow and Johannesburg offices. Well, idiot, I live in Johannesburg, and I think your newspaper is doing a pretty crap job of reporting on what is going on in my city. It is not even coming close to telling Americans what is going on. So I am *GLAD* and utterly delighted that its closing its offices. There will be other, better sources of news of what is going on in Johannesburg - like my own website for example - which is telling all the stories which your "professional organisation" was too damned useless to report on. Sod the mass media. I will enjoy watching Internet Websites dancing on the graves of CNN, Larry King and all the rest who lied by ommission and who told the twisted stories they wanted to tell. The sooner some of these organisations, like CNN go BANKRUPT, the better. And what great "mass culture" are we going to miss? A bunch of hippies? Frankly, I see nothing worth missing. Instead I am hoping that people will be more individualistic and will do some thinking about their own views instead of being brain dead. Let the Internet smash the Mass Media into the ground, because as far as I'm concerned the Mass Media played a major, major role in the destruction of Africa by covering up so much of the truth. You dug a grave for us, and I am delighted that you Liberal bastards are going to fall into it yourself. Jan] The extinction of mass culture The advent of 300 channels and the Internet has fragmented audiences - and the explosion of choice has left us poorer By Marc Gunther, Fortune senior writer |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #17 I like Jan. Don't know if you all have ever checked out his website, but he was one of the first to convince me that the MSM was hiding a LOT of what's going on in the world. He was stationed in ZimBOBwe at the time and his site had pictures, names, dates and locations of white farmers being run off AND KILLED (execution style) by Bob's goons. Heck, I'd never even heard of Zimbobwe, but he peaked my interest and I began to research and see how quickly a potentially incredible country could be run into the ground by a communist thug...he even had stats on how much grain Zim produced...basically, the "bread basket of Africa. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-07-13 21:07 |
| #16 F@#k em |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-07-13 19:33 |
| #15 This is a load of crap. Quality will get noticed and mass culture will succeed. If you looked around at movies before tv you would have seen a lot of crap and a few gems (we remember the gems). Movies improved with letterbox formatting, cinescope, and other inventions and survived and in many ways improved. If you looked around during the 70s and 80s before cable tv you would have seen a lot of cookie-cutter programs on television. Then cable came around and sucked up market share. Now television is pretty high quality from Sopranos on HBO to The Shield and 24 on basic cable. Despite Internet growth. Choice is good as it forces the media to improve. Of course CNN refuses to improve so they will go the way of disco in time. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-07-13 14:35 |
| #14 Big media doesn't have to go clear out of business to make me happy. All they have to do is quit fucking us around and report the news. Without the opinion or spin, just the news. They havent done that since the 50's(if ever) and we would probably have to re-learn a good deal of modern history. But it would be worth it. Having said that, I don't for a minute think they will, I don't think they can, they will go down in flames lying and accusing all the way. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-07-13 13:47 |
| #13 The second arena where we are worse off is politics. This is related to journalism, as the moderate and responsible (okay, bland) voices of the MSM get drowned out by partisan, opinionated cableheads and bloggers. "Moderate" and "responsible?" Uh, who told you chuckleheads that you were "moderate and responsible?" In what parallel dimension did THAT occur? |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2006-07-13 11:49 |
| #12 Crap BBC is nothing but a propaganda wing of terrorist. |
| Posted by: djohn66 2006-07-13 11:21 |
| #11 I like rense.com... but for ufo, cattle mutilations, flying entities over Mexico, and the like. For anything else, I must take a mental shower afterward... but who could take that site seriously, except for the fringe left/right? |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-07-13 11:00 |
| #10 an example would be that idiot Rense at rense.com promoting idiot theories that joooos caused 9/11 etc. And some people believe this guff and think it as reliable as a BBC news report. |
| Posted by: Anon1 2006-07-13 10:55 |
| #9 Mass media sucks but internet media has own problems. EG: explosion of conspiracy theories Because there is so much choice sometimes the masses are fooled by internet 'sources' that are propaganda/outright lies and don't have to adhere to journalist code of ethics ie: cannot be sued in a court of law, hence the company doesn't force it's journos to keep records or try to verify any facts (no matter how flawed at least there were operational demands). |
| Posted by: Anon1 2006-07-13 10:55 |
| #8 Sorry, Moose but Powell is right and you are wrong. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-07-13 10:08 |
| #7 Watch carefully. When someone or something enjoys a monopoly for an extended period of time and a competitor comes on the scene, what does the monopoly do? Offer a better product or service? No. It seeks those of power to cripple the competition. It’ll be written in fine words. The ‘best interests’ of the ‘people’ will be invoked. It is really all about power. It's already started. |
| Posted by: Chomoper Glineling2155 2006-07-13 09:39 |
| #6 In an example of amazingly convoluted logic, Michael Powell, ex-chairman of the FCC and CATO institute member, tried the CATO philosophy that monopolies would self-destruct if allowed to continue. This is why he opened the flood gates to media consolidation, hoping that big media would destroy itself. All we got out of the deal is bigger big media. Next time, just use the screwdriver to turn the screw, don't hope the screw screws itself. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-13 09:39 |
| #5 Hardy, har, har. The Communist News Network (CNN) loses it's signal--good riddance. They are just a branch of Al Jiz. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2006-07-13 09:23 |
| #4 And good fucking riddance! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-07-13 09:21 |
| #3 well said! |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-07-13 08:57 |
| #2 Good riddance. I just wish the mass media would hurryup and die already. Hasn't it caused enough death? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-07-13 08:40 |
| #1 Gotta agree with him. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-07-13 08:31 |