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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe liberal media is a myth!
What is this now right wing underground! unless it's fstv or RT it's not worth watching. Msmbc is crap! Fox News is crap! Cnn is crap!
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Especially Chris, Rachel and Lawrence.
But understanding what journalism is and is not is key in this observation.
Understanding the world, too.
jpmonk91
(290 posts)They are just like fox
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)is simply not true and comes from emotion.
jpmonk91
(290 posts)Only remotely liberal news network. Thom is great! bill press is great! And Amy is great! The only real reporters on tv
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)Journalism is not being owned by a corporation that is legal obligated to maximize shareholder value. You can't serve two masters.
jpmonk91
(290 posts)MSNBC is another corporate shill
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)gang of Idealist wrecked what was known as the free Press or as we more aged persons would call it,the Fourth Estate. This all started with the Gannett Family and their POS called USA Today.
floriduck
(2,262 posts)Unlike US corporate news, RT actually provides world news that many Americans are clueless about. Watching the Hawks and Redacted Tonight are really good shows too.
jpmonk91
(290 posts)lame54
(35,345 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)board room interferes with content.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)This is better:
The Powell Memo (also known as the Powell Manifesto)
The Powell Memo was first published August 23, 1971
Introduction
In 1971, Lewis Powell, then a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, wrote a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The memorandum was dated August 23, 1971, two months prior to Powells nomination by President Nixon to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Powell Memo did not become available to the public until long after his confirmation to the Court. It was leaked to Jack Anderson, a liberal syndicated columnist, who stirred interest in the document when he cited it as reason to doubt Powells legal objectivity. [font color="green"]Anderson cautioned that Powell might use his position on the Supreme Court to put his ideas into practice in behalf of business interests.[/font color]
Though Powells memo was not the sole influence, the Chamber and corporate activists took his advice to heart and began building a powerful array of institutions designed to shift public attitudes and beliefs over the course of years and decades. The memo influenced or inspired the creation of the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, the Cato Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Accuracy in Academe, and other powerful organizations. Their long-term focus began paying off handsomely in the 1980s, in coordination with the Reagan Administrations hands-off business philosophy.
Most notable about these institutions was their focus on education, shifting values, and movement-building a focus we share, though often with sharply contrasting goals.* (See our endnote for more on this.)
So did Powells political views influence his judicial decisions? The evidence is mixed. [font color="green"]Powell did embrace expansion of corporate privilege and wrote the majority opinion in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, a 1978 decision that effectively invented a First Amendment right for corporations to influence ballot questions.[/font color] On social issues, he was a moderate, whose votes often surprised his backers.
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http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/
There's much more (ask somebody about Alex Carey). But it's how people can better believe the hypocrisy as normal.