I have said this before, but it cannot be said too often: the U.S. mainstream media monopoly is the world's first privately owned, for-profit re-creation of Josef Goebbels' Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, the infamous Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. This is not hyperbole. A near-lifelong journalist -- I got my first daily newspaper job, as a sports stringer and copyboy at age 16 in 1956, and I thus experienced the national transition of news media from 90-percent independent ownership to 90 percent ownership by a mere six monopolies. (See https://techstartups.com/2020/09/18/6-corporations-control-90-media-america-illusion-choice-objectivity-2020/) I've also experienced the (invariably negative) consequences of the transition, among them the increasing control of information by ecogenocidally greedy plutocrats whose recognition that their only safeguard against revolutionary justice is zero-tolerance theocratic nazification -- thus the slaying of the Republic, the trashing of its Constitution and its replacement by the Christonazi "Unified Reich," literally Auschwitz Nation with Trump as Führer. That's why I'm actually thankful I'm diagnosed as terminally ill and soon dead; I'll (probably) escape the looming extermination of all dissenters, not just those of us who dare denounce the MAGATs for the wanna-be Reinhard Heydrichs they truly are, but eventually anyone accused of the even smallest indication of being non-Christian. That's what's coming, and Stephen Colbert is obviously already on the regime's target list.
Thanks for writing this. Your piece was particularly effective because you let the extremely ugly facts speak for themselves. I'm glad as well that you highlighted the 200 people who will lose their jobs. I wish them the best and I also hope that they know the ugly truth as to why.
Ten years of submediocre white people screaming about cancel culture and this is the second person to ever actually be canceled. The first was Colin Kaepernick. (And you could make a case for the _____ Chicks.)
Gosh I wonder what they have in common? I’m sure Bari Weiss will get right on it, highly principled defender of free speech that she is.
I really hate Weiss. She cares not for the schoolteachers and librarians who have been fired for being "woke" or some such shit. She only cares abut her rich friends.
I would give just about anything (I can say that because I don't have much) to be a fly on the wall listening to what Colbert and Jon Stewart are scheming up for their next moves. What we do know - it will be brilliant. One possible prediction - Colbert goes balls out these next few months, and gets yanked early.
Cobert sucks. He was funny, but went full partisan comedic bully. He fired himself. His small appeal to coastal and big city liberals, people that lack a sense of humor but will snigger with cynicism, snark and invective with a good enough cut at those ugly and stupid working class people... well that is not enough.
Eh, those snooty liberals, makin' fun of a buncha workin' class lawyers drivin' their pickup trucks to the law-makin' fact'ry to hammer out a deal between our workin' class billionaire President and workin' class billionaire Larry Ellison, who just wants to buy hisself a lil' TV network, a thing any workin' class guy might do on a Friday night when he's got his pay envelope burnin' a hole in the pocket of his jeans.
Great piece on a disturbing topic
I have said this before, but it cannot be said too often: the U.S. mainstream media monopoly is the world's first privately owned, for-profit re-creation of Josef Goebbels' Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, the infamous Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. This is not hyperbole. A near-lifelong journalist -- I got my first daily newspaper job, as a sports stringer and copyboy at age 16 in 1956, and I thus experienced the national transition of news media from 90-percent independent ownership to 90 percent ownership by a mere six monopolies. (See https://techstartups.com/2020/09/18/6-corporations-control-90-media-america-illusion-choice-objectivity-2020/) I've also experienced the (invariably negative) consequences of the transition, among them the increasing control of information by ecogenocidally greedy plutocrats whose recognition that their only safeguard against revolutionary justice is zero-tolerance theocratic nazification -- thus the slaying of the Republic, the trashing of its Constitution and its replacement by the Christonazi "Unified Reich," literally Auschwitz Nation with Trump as Führer. That's why I'm actually thankful I'm diagnosed as terminally ill and soon dead; I'll (probably) escape the looming extermination of all dissenters, not just those of us who dare denounce the MAGATs for the wanna-be Reinhard Heydrichs they truly are, but eventually anyone accused of the even smallest indication of being non-Christian. That's what's coming, and Stephen Colbert is obviously already on the regime's target list.
Parker,
Thanks for writing this. Your piece was particularly effective because you let the extremely ugly facts speak for themselves. I'm glad as well that you highlighted the 200 people who will lose their jobs. I wish them the best and I also hope that they know the ugly truth as to why.
Ten years of submediocre white people screaming about cancel culture and this is the second person to ever actually be canceled. The first was Colin Kaepernick. (And you could make a case for the _____ Chicks.)
Gosh I wonder what they have in common? I’m sure Bari Weiss will get right on it, highly principled defender of free speech that she is.
I really hate Weiss. She cares not for the schoolteachers and librarians who have been fired for being "woke" or some such shit. She only cares abut her rich friends.
Elise Stefanik was demanding of CUNY's president that a law faculty member be fired simply for working on the defense team of Kilmar Garcia.
Evidently, CBS now stands for "Corrupted by Skydance."
I would give just about anything (I can say that because I don't have much) to be a fly on the wall listening to what Colbert and Jon Stewart are scheming up for their next moves. What we do know - it will be brilliant. One possible prediction - Colbert goes balls out these next few months, and gets yanked early.
Didn’t Edward R. Murrow work for these guys?
It’s the name of the high school in my neighborhood.
They should put black crepe around it.
Excellently put, Parker.
Cobert sucks. He was funny, but went full partisan comedic bully. He fired himself. His small appeal to coastal and big city liberals, people that lack a sense of humor but will snigger with cynicism, snark and invective with a good enough cut at those ugly and stupid working class people... well that is not enough.
Eh, those snooty liberals, makin' fun of a buncha workin' class lawyers drivin' their pickup trucks to the law-makin' fact'ry to hammer out a deal between our workin' class billionaire President and workin' class billionaire Larry Ellison, who just wants to buy hisself a lil' TV network, a thing any workin' class guy might do on a Friday night when he's got his pay envelope burnin' a hole in the pocket of his jeans.