How many people feel overwhelmed by the corporate media complex?

Thank you my friend, and I hope the rest of the world doesn’t resent individuals like myself who, despite their international ignorance, understand that many many changes need to be made here in the ‘States. My citizenship and personal nationality force me to stay here on a moral level. I was born on this soil, and I would defend it savagely to my death from hostile invasion. Yet the people who impose their majority control on my Homeland’s people and resources are exploiting, misleading, and capitalizing on the politically disillusioned and light-blinded population. While the (surprisingly) common intelligent free thinkers are labeled dangerous, radical, and rampantly progressive. In a ‘’post 911’’ world, this is the separation we’ve wreaked upon ourselves in our blind ignorance. And to my fellow Americans: Free your mind! Inform yourself on a national scale, from the outside looking in. Beyond the mudslinging and support camps of our corporate conglomerate media.

Take off the red and blue tinted glasses!

If you want a more objective perspective of what’s going on in the US, watch foreign news channels instead, such as BBC news. They’ll have their own slants of course, but they are not being spoon fed information by the US government, so what they report tends to contain less US propaganda.

When I was a lad news stations had to follow the Fairness Doctrine that required them to present news in a honest, equitable and balanced manner. That rule was repealed in the late 80’s.

There also were media ownership rules in place to make sure that in any market that viewers would see a variety of viewpoints. These rules have been relaxed so that more and more of our media is owned by a smaller number of corporations.

These rules lead to our news presenting fewer positions and becoming far more slanted.

Fox News generally slants quite conservative, MSNBC slants quite liberal (for the US anyway) while CNN tries to take the middle ground. PBS has always went for the more educated and socially aware viewers and took liberal positions like being critical of our participation in Vietnam and aggressively perusing the Watergate scandal. PBS recently has moved more to the right after appointing conservative Kenneth Tomlinson as president.

You definitely have to branch out from the major news sources to get a broad range of viewpoints.

As far as the red blue dichotomy goes, prior to 2000 there was no agreed on assignments. Some would use red for Democratic and blue for Republican and some used them the way we do today.

Television media in the US is very corporate. Some stations may have political agendas, but the reason they do so is because they’ve found it profitable to cater to a certain segment of the population. Fox makes money off having a conservative bias because they know that the Religious Right will tune in and watch their programs.

But that’s not the main problem I have with the U.S. media. What you get in America are local freak stories getting coverage on a national level, blowing them out of proportion, instead of broad, internationally focused coverage. It takes a pretty large world event to get the attention of the national US media. There’s a reason that Americans are stereotyped as being ignorant about world affairs, and the media seems to foster that. On the BBC not long ago, there was a lengthy feature piece on the Uighurs in western China. You don’t often find that in US media, with the exception of public television. European media has its problems, but in Germany, for example, the biggest TV stations don’t make a profit and their management is appointed by councils that represent many institutions. The result, in my opinion, is more informative, less biased news coverage.

don’t watch the news it’s controlled state media.