So, In addition to corporate executives being appointed as "advisers" and board members over the nation's resources - i.e. lumber exec's over the forestry department, coal and oil exec's over the other natural resources, etc., etc. in the interests of - of course - the people, right?
De-regulation has been happening for over 31 years, so companies are ignoring anti-trust laws and forming monopolies, no one is regulating pollution, jobs being sent overseas, etc., etc...
Lobbyists and PAC's have been giving large donations to those who make laws over their corporate interests.
Citizens United allows unlimited donations to candidates with NO ACCOUNTABILITY and therefore no limit to their profit through the corruption which is inevitable.
Rupert Murdock owns MOST of the media conglomerates and uses them to promote his causes - the causes of the wealthiest and most powerful like him. The Koch brothers... need I say more?
Now, Scott Bezos of Amazon fame bought The Washington Post. Wasn't that the paper of Watergate exposure fame? No more... gradually, 60 minutes, other "news" programs and networks all sold out. CNN, which once at least "seemed" to be unbiased, has a slightly right of center slant to it now.
Other than independently owned and cooperatively owned networks and newspapers, there are NO politically neutral networks or newspapers left. Even NPR has commercials for corporations that support it.
Newspapers are struggling, at the very LEAST, because nobody reads anymore. TV news networks are so biased that you can find one to agree with your extremes, but not challenge your extremes unless you watch the oppositely polarized network.
They are ALL in the pockets of someone, or like LINK TV and some independent radio networks and newspapers, are discredited regularly by others that are in someone's pocket.
There is nowhere in media where one can find objective truth.
Laissez-faire capitalism has won again. The best biased reporting money can buy is what we get.
More polarization will be the result as the Titans of Media Industry pay off all those whom they can pay off, and we will not know objective truth any longer.
I have been in grief for the death of our democracy at the birth of our more extreme oligarchic plutocracy 32 years ago, and for over 30 years... I still have grief reactions now and then when I am faced with more expressions of the results of that loss... like in the past few days... goodbye objective media... your champions will be remembered and their contributions to our society and the world will be lifted up in amazement, because the truth has now become obsolete...
Pastor Jamie
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