[quote=Arraya]The complete prostitution of the mainstream media is an accomplished fact. Both directly, through media consolidation, and indirectly, through captivity to advertisers, the media are by now the stenographers and flacks of neoliberal and neoconservative corporatism in general.
Now we have a corporate state with a soiled layer of political paint rapidly peeling off.
Ironically, what killed newspapers was not a poor business model, IT WAS BUSINESS ITSELF.[/quote]
Arraya: I cannot tell you the number of times I wished I could write you and your theories off as just being part of the fringe, but the facts tell a different story.
My dad opined once that the Watergate story was the high water mark of American journalism, and while I don’t agree completely, he had a point.
There is no depth to reporting anymore and the term “chattering classes” applies more than ever. Between Maddow and Olbermann on the Left and Beck and Limbaugh on the Right, we’re now left with nothing that constitutes a centrist, middle-of-the-road viewpoint. All that is vulgar and profane and ultimately meaningless, is paraded in front of us as “news” and “viewpoints” and “discussion”, but its anything but.
