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In reply to the discussion: On the media "conspiracy." [View all]Uncle Joe
(58,298 posts)more people do watch them and the debates as the election draws near, now is the time to strike while the iron is hot, not 3-6 months ago.
I simply haven't seen any kind of drumbeat by the televised corporate media regarding Citizens United as of late.
I also don't believe it was a coincidence that no environmental questions were asked during any of the debates, perhaps that was because the fossil fuel industry is a heavy purchaser of commercials.
I mean come one, we had a record breaking year of heat and drought topping off a decade of extreme weather and they couldn't bring themselves to ask a single question regarding this issue!?
The corporate media as an institution is simply pre-disposed to the privatization of everything over the public good not because it's better for the people but because it's more profitable to the corporate media.
The corporate media's "prime directive" is selling commercials and informing the American People is a secondary concern if not farther down the totem pole to that priority.