My Lightbulb Moment: It's less important to know how we lost; more important to learn how they won.

[ancianita]

22. I don't have the answer, just an idea or two. But then, why would they want to?

If media make money for their owners with current presentations of pseudo information, drama, false equivalencies and making every election a horse race ("thank you for staying with us" and "stay tuned!&quot , and making people tear their hair out trying to get at the truth, why would telling the American public the truth help them profit?

Do we see people on TV or paper media who would risk their jobs for stirring a consciousness in the American people?

Even if MSM did, wouldn't it likely be because the truth is now too late for any body politic groundswell (without big money by conscious billionaires) to do anything about?

We put the news of Greg Palast and The Rolling Stone together too late. Our lawyers who love democracy have been as fried as we have with the trappings of moral culture wars and he said/she said outrages, along with the belief that enough people would GOTV to get a win that could better life for most Americans. We were shocked at the mention of global influences that defy all we ever thought or were taught about the civics of nation state politics and public agency.

All of what we've wanted MSM to do has mistakenly presupposed a morality like Bernie's, a classical ethical responsibility to the American people. That's what we were taught back in the day. It disappeared before we even realized it in 2007. With the mix of bullshit and small factoid/no context reporting, we took years to figure out the betrayals of media we thought we could trust.

But media was only part of theater that hid what really was happening.

What it might take, if we can pull together a united collective will, is to boycott all TV and print media until their profits are so low they do something drastic to show they've changed. We'll likely not see that. But we could just walk away from those that have teased us with political theater long enough.

We have to have an alternative for veracity for the body politic, if it's going to keep itself alive as an agent of democracy. If the Internet is all we have, we'd better make better use of it than paying for infotainment.