America's for-profit media corporations catastrophically failed us

[panfluteman]

15. Derelict Media Corporations Working Against the Good of Our Nation

Is just a symptom or particularized manifestation of a much larger and overarching problem. The world is a lot smaller now, a global village as Marshal McCluhan put it, and everything is all inter-related. In this kind of globally interdependent environment, it's now very possible, and in fact very easy, for one industry to enrich itself at the expense of the whole of the nation, of society at large, or at the expense of other industries. For example, giving special advantages or immunity to the big oil corporations and letting them off the hook lightly in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was great for oil companies like BP, but at the same time terrible for the tourist industry in the gulf coast states. This is just another reason why good, common sense regulations are now more important than ever, in spite of Republican propaganda to the contrary. We're getting screwed from all sides, in multiple ways - not just from the media in this last election, but all round.