He adds:
"Elections are about a lot of things, but at the highest level, they're about money," Taibbi writes. "The people who sponsor election campaigns, who pay hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the candidates' charter jets and TV ads and 25-piece marching banks, those people have concrete needs. They want tax breaks, federal contracts, regulatory relief, cheap financing, free security for shipping lanes, anti-trust waivers and dozens of other things."
Chris Hedges nails it when he states:
"The corporate media ignores issues and policies, since there is little genuine disagreement among the candidates, and presents the race as a beauty contest. The fundamental question the press asks is not what do the candidates stand for but whom do the voters like."
Entertainment and capital have corrupted our media landscape ever since Ronald Reagan stopped enforcing the Fairness Doctrine in 1986.
Bill Clinton finally put it in its coffin ten years later when he signed the Telecommunications Act.
Unless the corporate media has an epiphany within the year, we are going to repeat the same embarrassing sideshow we saw in 2016.
I guess that means we are going to repeat the same embarrassing sideshow we saw in 2016.
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