WHAT HOLLYWOOD TYPES??? - I want to know where the propaganda comes from...

[electprogdems]

From politico http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8564.html


"The RNC’s “winter retreat” for major donors at Los Angeles’ Beverly Wilshire Hotel featured such party stalwarts as Karl Rove, RNC chairman Robert Duncan, former Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams, as well as some Hollywood types, including Dave Berg, a segment producer and “political director” for "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno"

Let us not forget the republican types stand for - the elimination of the middle class, the depression of wages, the supremacy of the corps including those who give us the news, the oil companies, the destruction of the environment, the destruction of the constitution, including voting rights, having fundy catholic men decide what I can do or not do with my reproductive choices, the absolute destruction of the public schools.

If this is a republican strategy meeting, why are mainstream "hollywood" types there at all, unless they play on helping covertly.

[blondeatlast]

1. They do help covertly--they are too cowardly to go on record

as being on the wrong side.

Is there a more brilliant example than the disaster that is Leno on "The Tonight show?" Alas, I remember Johnny Carson.

Leno hasn't had an unscripted thought since he first got caught with his hands in the cookie jar.

[Uncle Joe]

2. I always thought Carson was head and shoulders above Leno.

Carson's humor seemed more widespread and self-deprecating, Leno's just seems cold and stale to me, and he seems to make his bread and butter tearing down the already wounded, instead of truly bucking power.

[stillcool]

3. probably some of these...

These five conglomerates are Time Warner, by 2003 the largest media firm in the world; The Walt Disney Company; Murdoch's News Corporation, based in Australia; Viacom; and Bertelsmann, based in Germany. Today, none of the dominant media companies bother with dominance merely in a single medium. Their strategy has been to have major holdings in all the media, from newspapers to movie studios. This gives each of the five corporations and their leaders more comrnunications power than was exercised by any despot or dictatorship in history.
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Media corporations have always possessed the power to affect politics. That is not new in history. But the five dominant corporations-Time Warner, Disney, News Corporation, Viacom, and Bertelsmann-have power that media in past history did not, power created by new technology and the near uniformity of the political goals. The political and social content projected by these media to the country's population has had real consequences: the United States has the most politically constricted voter choices among the world's developed democracies.
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Bagdikian/Common_Media_TNMM.html

A list of the properties controlled by AOL Time Warner takes ten typed pages listing 292 separate companies and subsidiaries. Of these, twenty-two are joint ventures with other major corporations involved in varying degrees with media operations. These partners include 3Com, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, Citigroup, Ticketmaster, American Express, Homestore, Sony, Viva, Bertelsmann, Polygram, and Amazon.com. Some of the more familiar fully owned properties of Time Warner include Book-of-the-Month Club; Little, Brown publishers; HBO, with its seven channels; CNN; seven specialized and foreign-language channels; Road Runner; Warner Brothers Studios; Weight Watchers; Popular Science; and fifty-two different record labels.