Arraya,
Do you think that all media is really controlled by only 5-6 people? While I wouldn’t be too surprised to find that a lot of major media is owned by only a handful of people, and I could be convinced that these handful of people do have an influence, I find it hard to believe that journalistic integity has fallen to such a level that if the news editors of most major news outlets were told to play down Ron Paul, they wouldn’t balk and walk out. ‘Course there’s always the possibility that I’m foolishly naive.
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Look at this graphic. Picture is worth a 1000 words.
I’m just shot gunning ideas and don’t think it is defined as that. But the concentration of power is not good for the populace to get a wide range of views and equally balanced ideas. I think people try to define conspiracies a little to much. The concentration of powers and the political and corporate interests that push and pull to form public opinion can really give you a 1 or 2 sided view and shield imortant things from people to the point of it shaping our world view of what “they” want us to see. Which all to often is not in our best interest..
That is why the internet is so vidal to leveling the playing field. Just as this blog helps unravel the mystries of the housing market in a way that main stream media can’t or won’t due to conflicting interests.
People are not getting valuable information and it is forcing critically thinking people to research things themselves and the internet gives them a powerful information base to figure things out and disseminate information.
IMO There are a lot of “conspiracy theorists” out there that are correct more often than not for my taste. However, they are just plain stupid on other levels…
