Bernie Sanders Is As Frustrated as Ever With Corporate Media

[Uncle Joe]

38. If a free press depends on advertising sales, it goes to follow

that lower rates or altogether eliminating poverty would increase sales to businesses which in turn would have more money to spend on advertising.

Great ships don't turn on a dime.

You can take the short or self-centered view which the United States has done for decades on a macro level living for the next quarter in the stock market and that in turn translates to the American People increasingly falling behind and living paycheck to paycheck on a micro level.

That is a sure fire trek down the road to perdition for our nation whether it be economics, the environment ie: climate change, our crumbling infrastructure or the quality of our labor force as we continue to slip behind more enlightened nations that believe their people are citizens first and consumers second.

Aside from the economic argument, with great power comes great responsibility and the corporate media conglomerates are most powerful, their ethos should not be based on just selling the American People a self-serving policy, politician or down the river.

If they focused on the long view or big picture instead of just their own glamour and short term profits over time they could lift the American People up to a higher level of awareness versus dumbing them down just to make easier marks.