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WholeTruth
Correct Steve.
And such deep corruption for greed-ratings-profit heavily influences/brainwashes public/police/legal and all other institutions, meaning:
" RULE THE MEDIA-RULE THE MINDS "
Never anti-FAIR profit, check this optimistic lenghty/worthy 2hr-vid (& some links) for further deep insights into -
Power-Profit Illusion-Collusion Exposed-Deposed
steveimp
80% of the British press is with 5 or 6 multi billionaires. There isn't a 'free press' in this country and those who say that there is are either naive or just corrupt.
WholeTruth
"The Running Man" preview:
WholeTruth
Fletch nearly nailed it.
Some badly blurred, very basic clear lines need to be redrawn on the Brit press-media supposed ‘fairplay’ field; if fairplay is what Brits want.
Surely press-media proprietors for fair profit (including prospective prop. JK) in declared, greater-or-lesser 'Democracies' should at least need to state when their product is aspiringly objective well-informed/balanced 'NEWS', or sloppily subjective ill-informed/biased 'VIEWS'. True there’s no absolute definitive version of anything but not to even try is to fail, and brings the emotional slavery of mere opinion with distorting-not-reporting:‘ViewsNight’, ‘Views At Ten’, ‘Views Of The World’, .
Even Mob-Rule Rupe's Fox News(’Fixed NewZac’) dominating U.S. cable-news actually declares "Fair & Balanced" tho the old line occurs, “Tell One, Tell A Biggun”. Current devious press-media U.S. (ever leaders & bleeders) market trends for uneducated Mob Rule Right Wing ratings-and-profit followed a 1987 Reagan repeal of the FCC/Fairness Doctrine, which had required stations to provide air time for responses to controversial views. By the late-1980s stations were airing Oprah, and then Springer Mob Rule Zoo-TV plus editorial opinions without presenting opposing views, and Daniel Henninger wrote in the pre-Murdoch Wall Street Journal, "Ronald Reagan tore down this wall ... and Rush Limbaugh was the first to proclaim himself liberated from the ‘East Germany’ of liberal media domination."
Now presenting brazen ‘Point-Of-View Programming’, particularly on (sorry ‘bout this) no-fun-daMENTAL Religious Right Wing Rant Radio the loudest rent-a-gob wins the Mob Rule rant, and the ratings. Limbaugh on radio is among the highest paid in U.S. media, signing a $38Million p.a. 2008 - 2016 contract; guaRANTeed nearly half a billion dollars from manufactured, mass-produced ignorance.
None of this insult-to-intelligence, loud overpaid, overbearing bear-pit/schoolyard confusion exists in educated secular modern European, Murdoch-free, mainstream media. Where school leavers are fluent in two or more languages always including English, if slightly Americanized by ubiquitous TV Dramas and Pop Music.
To close this rant, add to Fletch’s press-media fiction warning-list, the following (also non-exhaustive) for required Brit school-leavers’ and Anglo adults’ education/infotainment reading or viewing. Orwell/”1984”, Bradbury/“Fahrenheit 451”, King-de Souza/“The Running Man”.
“The Running Man” TV Reality-Death Show.
Fletch
Not to 'Labour' a still missing, main and painful point.
In Anglophone fiction alone, are cautionary tales from Waugh/"Scoop", Welles/"Citizen Kane", Schulberg/"A Face In The Crowd", Lehman/"Sweet Smell Of Success", Chayefsky/"Network". Plus well documented damning HARD FACTS on Hurst/Harmsworth/Aitken/Maxwell/Murdoch et al.
It's quite clear that just 4-years in duly elected Govt can't ever democratically compete with continuous decades-ongoing unelected REAL power for populist profit, deploying an undemocratic unstated mantra:" RULE THE MEDIA-RULE THE MINDS ".
If any duly elected, supposed 'Free Speech' Anglophone US/UK/OZ Premier ever had the guts to restrain that unelected raw power (for Mob Rule ratings, profit & prurience NOT in the 'public-interest') then they'd be OUT in short time - also FACTually well documented.
The closest any postwar Brit P.M. came was circa '69 'Darlin' Harold Wilson's press-media amnesty when he rightly stated, "You stop lying about us, and we'll stop telling the truth about you!" Came June 1970 and in came Tory Right Wing sailorman/muso 'wet' Ted Heath ruling the waves for a while, but never the vital unelected Airwaves & Wet Ink.
The significant post-rationing/1955-2014 UK 59 years of right-wing UK media bias is in the stats.
TORY 35yrs/59%; LAB 11yrs/18%, NEW LAB(Old Tory)13 yrs/22%. Right-Wing 'NEW LAB/Old Tory', came after OZ-'95 when Mafiosa Rupe made his puppets Blair & Brown 'an offer they couldn't refuse' "Stay 'Right' and U stay in for a while. Return 'Left' and Ur right out for another 2-decades!" So one COULD say in all 59 yrs/1955-2014 Right Wing/Tory-New Lab 48yrs/81%, TRUE Lab 11 yrs/19%. (For the current ConDem axis of multi-millionaires read 'TORY'.)
The only future modern role-model that might work for us, is to (unlikely) adopt the less-adversarial liberal European inquisitorial systems of Press-Media, Policing and Justice where ALL facts, public figures, elected and unelected powers INCLUDING highly-paid/overpaid devious Press-Media manipulators are open to constant public scrutiny.
Not perfect but less corrupt, whatever the self-serving Europhobe SUN says/lies about Brussels.
Then we plebs, plus archaic, fact-hiding, heirarchical Anglos might democratically grow up, throw up, own up, pay up, and shut-the-fuck-up.
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