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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts)
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 03:19 PM Nov 2015

The Ring of Fire: Corporate Media Is Hungering For A War; It’s All About The Ratings

Since the Paris attacks, the corporate-controlled media has seen their ratings climb to yearly highs, all because they keep pushing us into another unwinnable war. But for corporate media, war is big business, so they won’t be backing down any time soon.

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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The Ring of Fire: Corporate Media Is Hungering For A War; It’s All About The Ratings (Original Post) GoLeft TV Nov 2015 OP
We need to start putting pressure on anyone who advertises with these networks Quixote1818 Nov 2015 #1
Yes, the oligarchs are frothing at the mouth for their next big war for profit. And their war-horny Dont call me Shirley Nov 2015 #2
But CNN is where some candidates get free ads from the serogates that make INdemo Nov 2015 #3

Quixote1818

(28,946 posts)
1. We need to start putting pressure on anyone who advertises with these networks
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 03:42 PM
Nov 2015


Tell them that if they keep advertising with CNN, Fox etc. they are supporting the war machine and we will abandon their products.

CNN etc. need to hear it from their sponsors that the American people are onto their racket.

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
2. Yes, the oligarchs are frothing at the mouth for their next big war for profit. And their war-horny
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 03:46 PM
Nov 2015

media is blaring their bugle reveille.

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
3. But CNN is where some candidates get free ads from the serogates that make
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 07:14 PM
Nov 2015

their rounds right?
I don't watch CNN or Faux or MSNBC since Ed Schultz left. its become another Right Wing Faux channel.

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