I'd humbly suggest that there is a deeper layer beneath your description of the disconnect more fundamentally driving the effect you describe. And that is media corporatism.
The media, whose visible, on-screen elements you've very clearly described, are just the veneer. The corporations who have literally and figuratively purchased "the fourth estate," have the agenda, the means, and the motivation to move and cheer-lead as the income distribution goes from 11 times to 22 times and if they can, to 100 times. THEY are the problems.
The pundits and the Ken and Barbie dolls aren't driving the agenda and the wedge between haves and have nots as much as they are willing and easily motivated (due to the financial benefits derived from the advertising loot) accomplices in a sick, warped, and ultimately self-defeating fraud. The media conglomerates control the message - it's intensity, frequency, and "analysis." The campaign money helps keep the FCC out of the way. And on goes the game.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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