Who Controls and Lies About Media Control?

Ronald Reagan demolished the Fairness doctrine in 1983.  For those who don’t remember, the Fairness Doctrine was a program enforced by the FCC that ensured discussion of national policy matters equally represented opposing views.  The justification for killing the doctrine was that there were so many news sources available that it was no longer necessary.   This gave rise to right wing hate radio; the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity and Michelle Malkin; people who say whatever they want without benefit of actual thought, knowledge or fear of question.
 
We are told repeatedly that the Main Stream Media is biased to the Left and that’s why hate radio is necessary.  If this were true you’d think the Right would be crying for a Fairness Doctrine, wouldn’t you?   So, is the media really biased to the left?  Let’s take just one topic: The Stimulus Package. 
 
During the Bush years Democrats couldn’t get a word in edgewise.  It was 24/7 run up to war and anyone asking questions was un-patriotic.  They were the winners of the election and represented the People, right?  Democrats just won their second election.  They now control Congress and the Presidency.  It was the Democrats who designed the stimulus plan and who researched the various methods of reversing the downward spiral in our economy.   So who do the talking heads call on to talk about the stimulus package?  Republicans by 2:1.  WTF? 
 

 

 

Well, the economy is a pretty complicated thing, right?  I mean we have a $14 TRILLION GDP and it’s not just everybody who can decipher why the various parts of it do what they do.  Doesn’t it take years of education and study to even know what the different aspects of the economy are?  So you’d think the talking heads would find those experts who know such things; you know the Pulitzer Prize winners who are recognized for their knowledge and perceptions of how economics work?   Well, only 6% if the “experts” interviewed on cable and broadcast networks were economists.  Six effin’ percent!  The rest were political consultants, congress critters and talk show hosts.  And they were right of center by a 2:1 margin!
 
Meanwhile we are bombarded with terms like “socialist”, “class warfare” and “big government”.  Why do you think that is?  Could it be that the MSM is just another bunch BIG CORPORATIONS with a vested interest in keeping things the way they are?  You know, tax breaks and regulations, or lack thereof, that keep them rich and safe from scrutiny? 
 
Want another example of “balanced coverage”?  Every “news source” for the last week has been Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) coverage 24/7.   Every word and nuance of extreme right wing nut-o-phobia from Rush Limbaugh praying that Obama, and our economy, fails to Wayne LaPierre, President of the NRA, declaring the Constitution nothing but “stains on a rotten piece of parchment paper in a museum somewhere”. 

 

 

CPAC drew 8,500 attendees this year.  Well, at the same time CPAC was going on a two year old left leaning organization, Powershift.org, held their annual meeting with Democratic Party speakers.  It drew 10,000 attendees and ended with a march to the White House.  Anybody here even heard of Powershift?  
 
Meanwhile, the media’s idea of “balanced coverage” is to allow every religious nut-job air time to proclaim homosexuality an abomination, advocate for teaching Old Testament superstition in biology class, and oil industry “experts” to “de-bunk” Global Climate Change.  
 
I say all this to remind you that you must question what you are told.  By all sides including those you want to believe.  Question me.  Read the sources, vet their validity and take nothing on face value, even if it seems to make sense on the surface.
 
I will close with two quotes from Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister:

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.

and

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.