Media Consolidation: The Illusion of Choice (infographic)

[TalkingDog]

[ananda]

1. Boy, that's painful!

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[zappaman]

2. Huge Rec and Kick!!!! n/t

[dogknob]

3. This will upset a few of our resident free thinkers. n/t

[bvar22]

4. Thank You, Bill Clinton and "Centrist" Democrats...

...working with their Big Business Deregulation & Privatization friends.

Telecommunications Act of 1996
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996

[GiaGiovanni]

7. +100

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[Whisp]

5. and I'm supposed to piss myself because 'freedom of the press' has been damaged?

A lot of people here got sucked right in to what those big 6 wanted them to think - right in like they live in Andy Griffith's world and not the real one.

Shameful!

[HiPointDem]

6. and yet 90% of DU is about what "Rachel" said v. what "Rush" said. they're all bought & sold.

fuck them all, just blather and distraction while rome burns. they never talk about anything that actually matters or analyze anything outside the corporatist frame.

[bvar22]

9. +1

As long as both Big Business Parties can keep the national discussion in the very narrow gap between the two parties,
it a WIN/WIN for the 1%.

As much as I like Rachel, she reads her script handed down from the Big Business interests
that OWN her show.

THIS is the BIGGEST SCANDAL in the USA today, and for the last 30 years:

Corporate Profits Hit Record High While Worker Wages Hit Record Low
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/12/03/1270541/corporate-profits-wages-record/?mobile=nc

[HiPointDem]

10. THIS is the BIGGEST SCANDAL = +1

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. This is pernicious and has been getting worse for years. "Soft" fascism.