The right has the ‘liberal’ media, and since we have the truth on our side, we should refer to the so-called mainstream media (or as the right calls it the ‘liberal’ media), as precisely by the name that it should always be called by, the corporatist press (or media). The corporatist media, not only is not liberal, it is for an extreme ideology that corporations, and their surrogates (the type of people that Barack Obama is appointing to nearly all of the highest posts in his cabinet and administration) should nearly without any outside consultation exclusively ‘guide’ the direction of this country (and indeed all the nations of the world, at their more modest of moments!).
In complete disregard for the Constitution and nearly any and all democratic processes, the corporatist media runs roughshod over public opinion (which, for example, consistently favors national health insurance, though politicians never propose it and the media never seriously discusses if it might be plausible to enact it, indeed the corporatist media only makes vague reference to the fact that some presumably ‘anti-American’, presumably communists or socialists, somewhere deep within the bowels of the country probably do represent a small minority of citizens that are actually in support of it), in times of war it allows only generals and colonels onto the telescreen; eschewing anti-war activists and others who might have something critical to say about the military industrial complex and the permanent war economy (that’s currently represented in the flesh by their imperial handyman Barack Obama, even though he looks more like the people they are usually going to napalm! Hey, isn’t that a great marketing strategy, I’ll file it next to hope and change!).
What the corporatist press refers to as political ‘analysis’, and ‘objective’ journalism, is really a dog and pony show with Tweedledee on one side and Tweedledum on the other. The vast majority of the time, that the corporatist press engages in what they refer to as political ‘analysis’, or ‘news analysis’, they invite two supposed analysts on to discuss the day’s events (usually some gaffe a politician has made that has nothing to do with any policy or in any way shape or form has any bearing on any serious issue facing the country, or, for that matter, any relevance pertaining to the capability of the politician in question to govern effectively or represent his or her constituents capably) on a ‘news’ (aka disinformation) program. These ‘analysts’ are mere talking point readers (though they call them strategists or the even more ridiculous name of pundit) of the two wings of elite planners and policymakers, they are on ‘news’ programs only to shill for the causes and concerns of the group (or political party) of elite policymakers that they are there (often paid) to represent. As I said they are normally called upon to be on ‘news’ shows to talk about the it political gaffe, corruption, or sex scandal of the day (or some policy, that no doubt has to do with taking away rights from everyday hard working Americans).
The days of investigative journalism and muckraking are long over, having been replaced by a milquetoast approach that has seen morning show homes and garden, gossip, and human interest story reporters (such as Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson), propelled to the heights of official ‘journalism’ (aka stenography). It seems journalism could only go to even more of a nadir, by plucking failed reality show contestants to read us our dose of nightly news (at least Survivor or some other crude and infantile reality program might perform better, under this schema)! No, the watchdog of the government no longer exists, dear reader, instead the watchdog for the government (and the ruling elite) remains firmly in its stead. There is no such mystical entity as the mainstream media (unless we’re talking about a paper such as the Christian Science Monitor which still practices something akin to what has traditionally been referred to as journalism), there is only the gargantuan rapacious beast that has taken over. The mainstream media (or MSM) is a misnomer, let’s call this weapon of mass distraction by a name that it should really be called by, the corporatist (decidedly unmainstream) media.
