General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: So the rumor mill on MSNBC is to replace Chris Hayes with Willie Geist WTF!!!! [View all]hvn_nbr_2
(6,823 posts)Yeah, they want that money, but there is far far more in controlling the national political discussion.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
The profit from selling TV commercials is measured in millions.
The gains for the paymasters from controlling the national discussion are trillions.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
One war is worth more to the greedmeisters than the profits from decades of soap commercials.
One trillion dollar tax cut for billionaires is worth more than years of beer commercials.
Impunity for Wall Street criminals and protecting the profits (current and future) from their crimes is worth more than car commercials.
Even the soap, beer, and car conglomerates find greater gain in the long term from keeping liberal opinions hidden, silenced, demonized, and made fun of than the short term gains of selling their products to liberals. That's why there were virtually no soap, beer, or car commercials on Air America, and they had to depend on commercials for hypnosis tapes and diet fads.
CorpoPravda's first priority is not selling ads; it is owning and controlling the government and the national political discussion.