Aizle wrote:
Khross wrote:
Aizle:
Why is it you are so quick to blame the general population for the failings of government?
So you subscribe to the tinfoil hat theory of the government controlling the media organizations?
It isn't a ridged totalitarian control, Aizle. I think that's where people are getting their signals crossed.
The largest possible single source of income for any company is the United States Government, and as we've fallen farther and farther away from a free-market system, and as the government has become more and more willing to subsidise various industry players, companies have started to market themselves to government far more than they market themselves to any other consumer because the rewards are bigger. Corporations like GE, who earn most of their money in technology, have acquired or created media outlets which they use as private propaganda outlets to varied degrees, because in doing so it makes them a more attractive customer to government because:
a) when a government decision is being made as to where to direct public funds, those funds will generally go to non-hostile, pro-government entities.
and b) the general public has been persuaded that this is a good and proper relationship between government and business, and are less likely to rally to suspend this type of public subsidization of private profits.
The government doesn't have to strong arm anyone, or have a hard handed control over media outlets (even though there are countless examples of incidents where this has been the case, and even wholesale legislation like the Fairness Doctrine), they simply let the media markets do it themselves, producing the exact same results. It's a soft control.
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19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
Ezekiel 23:19-20