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2006-07-13 Home Front: Culture Wars
CNN Idiot: Internet is killing the Mass Brainwashing of the Past
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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-13 07:25|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Gotta agree with him.
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-07-13 08:31|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-07-13 08:31|| Front Page Top

#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||   2006-07-13 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 well said!
Posted by 2b 2006-07-13 08:57||   2006-07-13 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 And good fucking riddance!
Posted by DarthVader 2006-07-13 09:21||   2006-07-13 09:21|| Front Page Top

#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||   2006-07-13 09:23|| Front Page Top

#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||   2006-07-13 09:39|| Front Page Top

#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||   2006-07-13 09:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Sorry, Moose but Powell is right and you are wrong.
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-07-13 10:08|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-07-13 10:08|| Front Page Top

#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||   2006-07-13 10:55|| Front Page Top

#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||   2006-07-13 10:55|| Front Page Top

#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||   2006-07-13 11:00|| Front Page Top

#12 Crap BBC is nothing but a propaganda wing of terrorist.
Posted by djohn66 2006-07-13 11:21||   2006-07-13 11:21|| Front Page Top

#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||   2006-07-13 11:49|| Front Page Top

#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||   2006-07-13 13:47|| Front Page Top

#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||   2006-07-13 14:35|| Front Page Top

#16 F@#k em
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-07-13 19:33||   2006-07-13 19:33|| Front Page Top

#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||   2006-07-13 21:07|| Front Page Top

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