Our media in a nutshell....

[spanone]

Link to tweet

Mike Lee wasn't mentioned a single time on CNN's State of the Union, Fox News Sunday, NBC's Meet the Press, ABC's This Week, or CBS's Face the Nation. Not one mention of new revelations about a senator scheming w/the Trump admin to end democracy on any of the major Sunday shows.

[Midnight Writer]

1. Mike Lee always cruises under the radar. He is protected from the kind of criticisms we see

of the other wingnuts like Boebert, Greene, Gaitz, and others, even though he is even more dangerous.

[themaguffin]

26. That may be true, but there wasn't a lot of coverage (if any) for other related texts etc.

[kairos12]

2. Toad on Meet the Depressed did mention Biden's name and "malaise" though.

So there's that.

[KS Toronado]

3. Plus he talked like repugs had already retaken the House in the midterms.

He needs to be off the air.

[calimary]

5. NOT a fan. PROUDLY NOT a fan!

[malaise]

8. Tell Fuckie Todd

To stay away from my username

[kairos12]

10. LOL!

[spanone]

13. Bwahahahahaaa I thought of you IMMEDIATELY.

[malaise]

15. Hehehehehehe

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. And not a peep about Jared's $2 billion bribe either, I suppose?

[madamesilverspurs]

6. .

.

[live love laugh]

9. ✔️

[IcyPeas]

7. this infuriates me..... every single time

[uponit7771]

11. +1,

[Rebl2]

14. Same here

[UpInArms]

12. Corporate media

[Novara]

24. I'm not a lawyer, but

If 6 media giants control 90% of the (mis)information fed to the public, isn't that collusion to attempt to commit fraud or something like that?

[UpInArms]

25. would be difficult to prove

but there is so much cross contamination on BoDs (Boards of Directors) that it is possible

[malaise]

16. I heard on Morning Joe Scum tnat the WP

has a scathing Opinion Piece about this today

[spanone]

17. Here it is....no paywall

https://wapo.st/3uRwl1B

[malaise]

18. Snip

So a Republican senator — a self-proclaimed “constitutional conservative,” no less — misled the country about his participation in a plot to overturn a presidential election. And yet not one of the five major Sunday talk shows mentioned one word about Lee. (CNN’s “State of the Union” had a good excuse: Almost its entire run-time was dedicated to an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.) But the other four — “Meet the Press,” ABC’s “This Week,” CBS’s “Face the Nation” and “Fox News Sunday” — couldn’t find time for one question, let alone one segment, about Lee.

[IcyPeas]

22. Thanks for this article

[sop]

19. The reporting I've seen about Lee's involvement always emphasizes what a courageous statesman

he is for changing his position at the end, and voting to certify the election. As if finally realizing it would be impossible to commit the crime, after conspiring for months to overturn the election, somehow exonerates him. They're praising Lee for not being as bad as Cruz or Hawley.

[spanone]

20. That's our media.

[LiberalLovinLug]

21. Speaking as a non American, an observation

There is a hyper sensitivity in American network news to present any story that hits too hard on the American ideal of their country being under any threat by any fellow American, or establishment party. A sense of...ignoring the idea that the "world's greatest democracy" could ever be under any kind of real threat.

Maybe its just their ears are so full of Republican exagerated accusations about Democrats turning the country into a communist country, or how they want to teach your kids to be gay, or they want to make white kids feel bad about history, etc that they feel they have to apply the same rules to Democrats. Take any actual threat to the countries democracy as just an overblown partisan accusation, only this time from the other party.

Also, and related to the Big Lie theory, a story about Americans attacking America is too big a story, too many ramifications, which would isolate and call out only one party. One thing I find still incredible is how a former President who ran for a second term and lost by over 7 million votes, can still not only claim he won, but use that lie to GAIN support, not lose it. That should have been a line in the sand for all news networks to not entertain any guests who don' t denounce Trump's lie before any questions. Mainstream networks have normalized the idea that one party just lies....daily.....its what they do. So what?

Now that normalization has moved on to....one party doesn't accept democratic results and schemes to take power by voting restrictions, gerrymandering, disinformation, and finally by force if all else fails....

That's just grand old party boys being grand old party boys!

Meanwhile, Democrats are in trouble because Biden had a senior moment and got a name wrong in a speech.

[Kid Berwyn]

23. Media Built to Serve the Ownership and Management classes.

Details and the memo written by the corporate lawyer soon to sit on SCOTUS Lewis F. Powell, courtesy of Greenpeace:

The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy

Additional background of import:

Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda

The Attack on Democracy

The 20th century, said Carey, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era. Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power.

John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still unknown.

Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide. Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda project up to date.

This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.

Source: TUC Radio

Part 1: https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-one-of-two/

Part 2: https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-two-of-two/

The mass media spread all sorts of stuff for people to think about, but precious little to help them understand how we got in this mess, and near-zero on what we need to do to get us out.