Corporations decide what Americans see on TV

And winter's almost over, so I won't be dinging Al about it pretty soon here... ;^)

The Olbermann hire is very promising because it portends a more comprehensive - and louder - voice for Current TV as an advocate for a badly needed Progressive agenda, that's all too often kicked around and suppressed by Media Inc.

In short: we need a prominent new media corp to counterweight Fox & foist reality upon Americans, whom are presently misled badly by the outlets they watch on television. I hope the hire of Olbermann can be one of multiple steps in that direction for Current. And I venture that after his MSNBC experience, Keith is thinking something similar...

Is that Rupert Murdoch in the TV immage photoed above ? I wish
someone would hand that yutz some special makeup with flesh
eating bacteria in it. That would wipe that shit eating grin off his
fugly face, permanentamente.

http://Current.com

It's so extremely insulting for anyone of a high degree of intelligence
to watch anything on the average TV channel, that it's a necessity
to have satellite/cable TV service. And even having a wide scope
of interests, there's little chance that even with all that choice, you
can find something worth watching when you want to find it-at least
on time to see the beginning of the episode. Fortunately, you can
use a preview command to scan ahead 2 weeks and set a timer to
watch the entire show. Usualy, when I'm ready to devote some time
to collecting some real news, I'm on my computer going through the
last 150 web pages of Current.com to blog genuine news articles.
And the only use I have for TV then is simply to tune into the Dish/Sirius
music channels. No insulting puppets dumping their mind control
on me then. At least I'll always have the last laugh on the vacuous
media mind manipulators, when all I do is listen to the audio of music.
Up your asses, ABski network loosers. Even Communists aren't quite
as depraved as you inconscionable turds are. I'm sure the devil's
reserving a special place in the 10th Circle of Hell for you, loosers.

I rereadmy comment..excuse the spelling errors!!!

Wow! I really stirred up a hornest's nest didn't I? I didn't mean to sound so ignorant, but in fact I am!!!! I only began to try in my feeble way to understand news, well, trying to find real news. Sorry so many of you don't like MSNBC or KO, however, I did and still do. If KO is full of whatever you choose to accuse him of, I can't argue. Whether big corps. control what we see and hear..which I realize all of you that "jumped all over my comment" is a fact that I do understand. Obviously all of the responses I received making me feel like a real "dunce" maybe is correct, but I did not sign on this site to be belittled and ridiculed for my shallow statement. I AM trying in my own feeble way to sort through the BS and still have some sort of open mind about certain broadcaster's and their role in trying to bring truth to those of us who aren't as informed or as intelligent as all of you expressed in making me feel, "I don't need be pounded in the ground" because I am not on top of all the information that was expressed in so mnay responses I had in my email, if all of you choose to be mean spirited and rude, why are you even bothering with Current? Many thanks for so many "head banging" comments, but please if you feel so superior to me and my lack of knowledge, just give my comments no further credence.......I really want to get my "duck's in a row" but I came to this "game" late in my life, so give me a brake and unleash your unkind, rude responses on someone else. I thought Current is a good place for me to start....if being on this site riles so many of you, I am so sorry you felt your belittling responses would and are helpful.......for me, I don't care for so much negative stuff, even if all of you are right!!!! Thanks!

Too many people confuse news with opinion. The nightly news is news. Shows like Olbermann and Beck are opinion. News is when it's reported the chicken crossed the road. As soon as someone suggests why the chicken crossed the road or who forced it to cross the road it's opinion with a bias based on the host's point of view. Unfortunately too many Ken and Barbie newscasters think they know something and throw their opinions in with the news.

SARAH PALIN: The chicken crossed the road because, gosh-darn it, she's a maverick!

BARACK OBAMA: Let me be clear. The chicken crossed the road because it was time for change! The chicken wanted change!

JOHN MCCAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because she recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken.

AL GORE: I invented the chicken.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that she must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help her realize how stupid she's acting by not taking on her current problems before adding new problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why she wants to cross this road so badly. So instead of having the chicken learn from her mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a NEW CAR so that she can just drive across the road and not live her life like the rest of the chickens.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because she's guilty! You can see it in her eyes and the way she walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did she cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed, I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.

JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth? That's why they call it the 'other side.' Yes, my friends, That chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the Liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side.' That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish it's lifelong dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2010, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken2010. This new platform is much more stable and will never reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?

THE CHICKEN: EAT MORE PORK!

Or you can just watch whatever you want, when ever you want, online for free.

Well you might have to pay for internet access.

This is why we need the large corporations to be broken up.Reagan's trashing of anti trust is one of the many legacies from Ronnie the terrible,which has been great for the few,bad for the many.With the media,banks,oil cos,etc broken up,real competition would create lower prices,more jobs,and end the transfer of wealth .The people need independent media to be informed with the truth to make informed decisions,and vote from information ,not propaganda.

This is why Current is a force for good in the USA

Hmmm...I've got a slightly hard time seeing his point here. Let's take tv for example which is by far the most prominent and common way for people to get their news. You've got CNN which is owned by Ted Turner, Fox news that's owned by News Corp, MSNBC which is owned by NBC, and then you've got the basic stations like CBS which is owned by CBS, NBC which is owned by NBC, and ABC which is owned by Disney. So....with the exception of MSNBC and NBC (which are obviously two branches of the same thing) there's really nothing that I see overlapping in corporate ownership of the major news networks.

I'm not trying to say that some of the people in charge of various news networks aren't biased of crooked, but to say they're all run by the same people....I don't quite see that argument.

And folks say I'm just paranoid. I'm not paranoid I'm just not blind to whats going on.

aaah,yes! for quite sometime now....remember the 20th century

This is another example of where capitalism fails to make something great and in fact does the opposite. Some of the less intelligent or less honest among us would try to argue that capitalism would make the news great because if a particular news network wasn't great, people would watch other networks thus raising the bar for all news networks. However, when we take our heads out of our stinky places, and look around we clearly see that this is not true in reality.

Exhibit A: Fox News - a good entertainment channel, yet a horrible source of unbiased information. The other networks also serve as examples, yet Fox stands head and shoulders "above" the rest in this respect.

Capitalism makes things *superficially* great because the effort is to make things appear great rather than being great in substance. Superficiality sells. That's why we have cartoon lizards selling us auto insurance.

This is why I don't watch the news. But amazingly some complainers blame everything on capitalism. Some humans thrive on greed and power we must stop them not become: communism, marxism or socialism which are all the same just different flavors. When the wrong power comes in and dictates your life crying won't get you anywhere.

Plutocracy

The Uniter States of Proctor and Gamble.....

Thanks to the corporatocracy we have the Glen Beck Show instead of the Noam Chomsky Show.

This is all part of the Ripublican"free market, capitalist system". It never creates competition, but eliminates competition and consolidates ownership in the hands of a few. It is a back door to oligarchy. Only by having laws and regulations limiting corporations ability to swallow up it competitors will we have any semblance of a democracy.

So true!
The internet is the last remaining "free" news outlet, at least for now.

Duh.....Who did you think was making those decisions? "They" control the horizontal and vertical. You can shut up and buy something.

Welcome to Corporatocracy! Brought to you by capitalistic greedy and non-compassionate people who are destroying the middle class by means of
misinformation and lies all for money and power. The founding fathers should have written the constitution "Freedom of True speech" for elected officials.

I miss Keeith Oberman on MNSBC, and still feel that whomever OWNS them may be troubling today. Perhaps I am naive, but I still have hope for the folk's who try to give both sides of any issue, and are willing to risk being "chopped" from a network if they are staying true to their beliefs!!! We need to wake up as a nation, and research on our own, to stay informed of where the TRUTH is, and be diligent in our search to be a better citizen! I still don't know if the state I am living in at present, will carry Current? I am very pleased to have this site online!!!

If true, then we have circular reasoning. Who is Current in bed with? They pay you to tell me what they want me to hear, isn't that so? Where else would your money come from? Oh, that's right, advertising. And advertising means a company is wanting me to "buy into" what they have agreed with Current and everybody else to feed me. So what is Current trying to say; "I'm organic." Round and round she goes, where she stops nobody knows. Money, Power, and Greed - the same Tribunal responsible for clubbing me over the head all these years. Please prove me wrong Current.

Because of corporate manipulations, the internet must - must! - remain free! I have been watching Egyptians as they struggle to live their own free lives not via USA TV outlets, but via AlJazeera streaming and France24 reports - and now Current. Could it be that corporations become nervous when American Consumers are not diverted, but reminded that they are Citizens first and that they DO have the power to change?

Those same corporations that own the news, own 90% of all cable channels.

If I go overseas and get a dual-citizen passport, then return as an alien, perhaps I can slip between the cracks of corporate manipulation for my perception.

This is an epiphany, how?

..... Peek-a-boo ... Just who are the invisible wizzes behind the magic Oz-ian curtain of all the political media news we Americans consume ... And, why, pray tell, should we ever be foolish enough to expect them to tell us any truth that might stand in the way of their piling up obscene profits? ... Or discovering the political shell game those corporate shysters play ... The American worker is becoming the victim of a reverse 21st century slave trade .... only its his job and not he which is shipped overseas ... He'll remain here to accept whatever slave-wage his corporate masters deign to dole him ... And they'll call it "free enterprise" in a "free market" ... What will you and your progeny call it?

the media has always been colored yellow. it was william randolph hearst whose yellow journalism started the spanish american war.

the media was never the "daily planet",it is the "bugle".

And in other news, we breathe air.

I don't watch the tv... because of this.

Americans can choose to turn off their TV.

However, with Republicans forever crying that public media is biased against them, won't we inevitably have to march on Washington and demand that a fraction of our tax dollars be spent on independent public media?

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