[political-research] Re: Why the Washington Post (and the Rest of the MSM) Are Going Down

--- In political-research@yahoogroups.com, Sean McBride
<smcbride2@...> wrote:
>
> The Washington Post is considered to be "liberal" in conventional
public opinion. It is in fact NEOLIBERAL -- that is neoconservative.
This is why the Washington Post, like the neoliberal New York Times,
was a major promoter of the Iraq War.

Well we still have conservative, liberal and left leaning papers over
here. But without doubt economy dictates the pace everywhere now.
Although even our liberal party - mainly neolib no doubt -
occasionally shows remnants of a memory of it's liberal roots, even
beyond a purely neolib/economical view of society.

Since liberal in the US is used synonymous with left, we might still
mean the same. It's a powerful and frightening trend to fit into the
mainstream. Everybody seems to be cooking with the same recipe.

> Nor does it bow to power -- the billionaires who own the
mainstream media ARE the power. The government bows to the mainstream
media, not vice-versa. The neocon billionaires who control the media
are much more powerful than any government officials. Most cabinet
level officials are, relatively speaking, disposable paupers and
lackeys compared to the small club which owns and controls the
mainstream media. The MSM can make or break them with little effort.

I noticed that the representatives of my paper are usually present at
the Bilderberg meetings but I am admittedly a bit hesitant about any
kind of octopus imagery, and the Bilderberg circle gives me the
impression of a purely representative meeting. Showing and be seen.
Personally these rituals bore me to tears.
>
MSM - mainstream media. Admittedly never heard this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_media
"This is countered by right-wingers with the term "MSM", the acronym
implying that the majority of mass media sources are dominated by
leftist powers which are furthering their own agenda."

This is strange, why should "mainstream media" be right-wing? Only the
acronym?

I agree that media concentration is dangerous, but somehow that train
left the station towards the end of the 19 century in the US? So how
to stop it? In the end the internet will be taken over,
although it shows an astonishing resistance, a decade ago I wouldn't
have thought we would make it to here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership

-b

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