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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe media's purpose is not to inform us
but to control us & create a pre-determined, limited narrative.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)Plug1
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(23,730 posts)or to match up Clinton vs. the Pub
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)"Much of modern day media's purpose..."
Anyone who grew up on Edward R. Murrow and his fellows, as well as those who have worked in news reporting in the past, knows that most people in the field used to try to do the best job they could do. That may no longer be the case in many outfits.
pretzel4gore
(8,146 posts)think of it....there's only ONE intelligence in the universe; by all the available evidence, YET! the fascistic rightwing has been running human affairs since Moby Dick was a minnow: the nazipoohs commit murder and scheme openly against the common wealth since Adam met Eve, and have been doing so since b4 the minnow was born... the fascists BRAGGED about murdering Trotsky in 1940 (blaming Stalin after the fact) they offed FDR (he not fascistic enuff- and he woulda included USSR in the postwar Marshal Plan) ... they nuked Japan despite Jap Emp. pleading/offering unconditional surrender, etcetera etc blah blah blah! The basic idea of a free press, in an informed democracy, simply couldn't work, as Aristotle pointed out long ago, due to ease of human tendency to brute tyrany. Lies are out and about whilst the truth still in bed! The very design of our planet, of life etc gives big advantage to the trickster, liar, criminal and thief. The most powerful religion on earth, ie Christianty, is a vast fraud, it seems. A hundred years ago, the suntan lotion industry stumbled upon the fact skin eye hair colour were hormonally based....a white person could become black using simple hormone treatment (and black become white, brown 'yellow' and soon) Naturally, Cecil Rhodes and that crowd were horrifiied that 'racism' was just another wham bam thank you, fraud, and, well the die was cast even before that! The USSR was actually the good guys in/post WW2, but none of you believe it, and, ferchrisskes, who really cares anymore? The Donald would be better prezidunce then Homer Simpson, i conjecture, so there you have it.... note: Hillary C was a 'young republican', even while Vietnam war was raging, so the Donald is preferable, i think- at least he speaks his mind-- knows about bottom lines and stuff