Spot on Analysis of Corporate Media by Glenn Greenwald

[Mosaic]

Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional rights attorney, said the media’s reaction to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement highlighted how mainstream media journalists had become part of the elite class.

“If you look at, say, a host on MSNBC, what you’re actually seeing is a very high ranking employee of what was General Electric and now is Comcast, who makes many millions of dollars a year and has a make-up artist sitting in front of their face for an hour applying all sorts of make-up and another person working on their hair.”

He said that journalists had traditionally been people outside of power who acted as watchdogs to aid the powerless, but that mainstream journalists now identified with the powerful.

More http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/09/glenn-greenwald-journalists-have-become-servants-to-power/

Video here

http://youtu.be/KBEpg1OltyI

[DJ13]

1. mainstream media journalists had become part of the elite class.

All part of the plan for a corporate takeover of our country thats been in the works since (at least) the early 70's.

Over paying for on air talent is cheap insurance.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Mosaic.:thumbsup:

[Mosaic]

8. You're very welcome

The media is the one thing hanging over all our heads every day. It is utmost importance that we get an honest media. The internet is helping but people still watch the ol' teevee way too much for their own good.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Yes, the Internet is the last and best bastion of free speech but the bastards are trying

to take that over as well,

Senate Halts GOP Bid To Repeal 'Net Neutrality' Rules

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5055383

and while we may have won this round, the forces of fascism will never quit.

[slipslidingaway]

3. knr nt

[provis99]

4. heh. I see Greenwald is still on his hatefest against Lawrence O'Donnell.

[Luminous Animal]

9. What? They had a disgreement in fall of 2010 about the reasons for the election loss...

Glenn's been on O'Donnell's show since and once commended him in print for taking the interview into a direction that the MSM tends to ignore. You know, people can disagree about politics or politically strategy without actually hating each other.

[Luminous Animal]

5. I was at that event. I have even more admiration for Greenwald after seeing him live.

Also, he is very witty and his boyfriend is cute!

Anyhooooo, I've read about half of his new book and though the subject matter is rather depressing, it is a wonderful book.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. In other news, water is wet

And he is correct.

[Rex]

7. Yep, most people that pay attention know that and learned it

decades ago. The M$M is made up of mostly bad actors, way overpaid for subjective and often politically biased journalism/news reporting.

NOT worth a warm pitcher of spit.

[Remember Me]

11. Dan Rather actually poihted this out years and years ago --

decades ago.

He further reminded us that journalists used to start on the police beat, where they got a whole gut full of "real life" and learned some compassion if they didn't come to the job with much.

Nowadays, you can even inherit your broadast job, like Tim Russert's son did. He actually doesn't do a bad job, most of the time, altho I have tired at times of his smug-ass attitude about some subjects.