TYT: Chuck Todd Slips & Tells Lewis Black EXACTLY Why The Media Sucks
“NBC host Chuck Todd may have accidentally revealed on Sunday why he — and other mainstream media personalities — often let their guests off the hook instead of conducting a hard-hitting interview.
During a panel discussion with about the popularity of political satire, Todd asserted that comedians may be guilty of fueling the public’s cynicism.
But comedian W. Kamau Bell argued that programs like The Daily Show gave viewers hope.
“You feel like I can laugh my way through this,” he pointed out. “I think that whenever they watch Jon Stewart or John Oliver, they feel like they are at least getting that person’s perspective. I don’t think people believe with the news, you know, you feel like you’re getting a corporation’s perspective.”"* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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We have numerous examples of corporate control everyday on DU and in other media.
Besides the media, the corporations control numerous key politicians, trade, technology, many parts of the judiciary, our elections through the use of secretive, propriety voting systems and machines, our food supply (GMO foods), medicine (pharmaceuticals and much of health insurance), transportation, the military, and it seems that everyday, they are gaining more control over education (private charter schools and mind-numbing practices like "teach-to-the-test" techniques such as "No Child Left Behind" and "Race To The Top"
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It seems that the main hope, perhaps the only hope, of reversing the complete takeover of civilization by the corporate 1 percent, is for a large part of the 99 percent that currently supports them comes to realize that their time will come to be oppressed when they cease to be useful minions of the oligarchy.
The goal should be for the middle class and the working class to regain a practical amount of negotiating power vis-a-vis the oligarchy. This negotiating power was previously provided by a strong union movement that supported the election of politicians who supported the interests of the people.
There are two main tactics used by the corporatists to achieve their aims of total control.
One tactic is to debilitate the union movement. This takes bargaining power away from the people.
The second tactic is to computerize every activity of the people. This removes all decision-making power from workers and lower level managers, since how the computers are programmed is controlled by upper management. That is, if an action isn't allowed by the computer, the user of that computer cannot make a decision of what is to be done.
Moreover, the computer allows tracking and recording of every action by a user of that computer. There is no privacy, and what is tracked is controlled by the "boss".
There are two ways to slow the march to a feudal system.
One strategy is to support workers and demand more American-made products.
The second strategy is to stop embracing the computerization of everything. It takes decision making ability away from people and hands more power to the corporations that decide how the computers are programmed.
