You cannot break it down to a sound bite as our population has become accustomed to because we are so busy. This insidious corruption of the media and political process is almost complete. As this video refers to, the media and political powers were trying to gain control over the last area of dissemination of the truth, the Internet. Since this was made they have made the first move to control access to content, more will come.
Let me give you a real world example of how the corporate media favors the powerful corporations vs. John Q. Public. When the Deepwater Horizon blew killing 11 men and polluting the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, BP suddenly became the largest advertiser by far in the post crash depression on the Gulf Coast. Their feel good BS ran on all stations day and night! Radio and newspapers were not left out of BP's largess either. The problem was when they tried to report on their local victims, they got cut off. The others learned quickly and the nation has no clue of the true impact, the scale and scope of this disaster! BP didn't stop there, they bought up every documentary that came out, before they came out. They bought the state Attorney Generals who's states have yet to recoup lost sales tax revenue in the billions. Obama blessed the "20 billion dollar fund and BP's hand picked "Independant" Ken Feinberg to run it, except there was never a 20 billion dollar fund and Feinberg was found by the Judge to have, "...always been BP's Representative."
Any real reporting would have easily demonstrated that the Emporer has no clothes. There was never 20 billion put into a fund. Obama gave BP the use of the Coast Guard to spray Corexit to sink the oil out of sight, all to get the media to move on to the next story, the 2010 midterms. The victims are still waiting for justice, many have already been denied by a one-sided Class Action settlement. That settlement was procured after BP offered to pay the Plaintiff's Steering Committee (PSC a group of law firms hand picked by the judge to prosecute the case) a $600,000,000 "Common Benefit Fund" if the settlement is completely processed and almost all victims are trapped into it. They don't get the money if too many victims "Opt Out" of the Class. It is a shit sandwich that is denying 75% of the victims while BP cries about paying a few victims with losses unrelated to the spill based on how the settlement was drafted. BP wrote the provisions they are now complaining about, but nothing is said about how it denies so many more actual victims any recovery.
Real reporting would have made this situation impossible! Corporations run our government and most people are either ignorant or apathetic. They buy off both political parties and almost all candidates Federal, State, and Local with campaign contributions and Super Pacs!
We need Publicly Funded Elections, outlaw campaign contributions, bust up the media oligopoly and Wall Street! Otherwise, we are witness to the fall of America as we are looted and ravaged and used up!
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