Aiding and Abedding a Corporate Coup
http://lwv.org/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud
"The League of Women Voters is withdrawing its sponsorship of the presidential debate scheduled for mid-October because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter," League President Nancy M. Neuman said today.
"It has become clear to us that the candidates' organizations aim to add debates to their list of campaign-trail charades devoid of substance, spontaneity and honest answers to tough questions," Neuman said. "The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to the hoodwinking of the American public."
Why does everyone continue to believe that this is a serious endeavor? That these debates are created to enlighten and inform the American people?
This is, quite clearly, a reality TV show designed to make money and serve the corporate sponsors.
Big Corporate & the Oligarchs love it when self governance gets a black eye. No faith in government, and no-content government is good for their freedom to profit and bottom line.
The viewing public is the product being sold. We are not the customers of the corporate media, we are the product. That old business adage of "the Customer is Always Right"? They ain't talking about us.
The customers of the corporate media are big giant corporate advertisers -- those are the cats that are always right.
When is the last time you've ever heard "the Product is Always Right"? The idea that "the Product HAS Rights" is not even on the corporate media's radar.
We're being played, completely, and I really wish people would wake the fuck up.
Comments
this article is dated October 3, 1988,
and calls out Bush and Dukakis, although it certainly could apply to today's debates.
I admire the LWV for sticking to their principles; OTOH,
the CPD took over without missing a beat and the charade went on. I wish the LWV would hold a debate on their terms and include all major candidates (i.e., those on enough state ballots that they could conceivably win enough electoral votes) and if the mainstream candidates don't show up, go ahead with exposure for the rest and publicize the fact that the main two would not agree to a substantive discussion.
I do think people understand that these "debates" are show over substance. Will anyone be discussing issues today that were addressed last night? Or discussing style as if they'd watched the Kardashians?
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Who would televise it?
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
All the MSM should, but you're right, they wouldn't.
Unless the LWV has some clout behind the scenes. I'm sure the mainstream candidates apply pressure that they won't get their debates if they air the LWV's. OTOH, if we could convince the MSM that we are fascinated by the third party candidates, they would air it if they were convinced the ratings would be better than those for the mainstream. It would be a tough sell. We'd need a huge petition.
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Zackly.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
I am fairly sure that LVW by this time is infiltrated
so even if they resumed sponsorship, the tail wagging the dog would continue seamlessly as well.
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I'm at a crossroads as to
whether or not believe that the 99% are still buyin the regurgitated BS that the corporate media puts out on a daily basis, I don't believe they do.
Or can it only be the sycophants that write and read it so gleefully that let the BS sink into their drug induced craniums, yes it's only them that believe.
The orchestration of it all is so way over the top, it's the neoliberal/neocon elitist 1%er's of NYC, DC, LA, Silicon Valley that live in this bubble wrapped induced world. The rest of us the "flyover country" basket of losers, deplorables etc.etc. are merely what they claim to be consumers of this shit, as it's all meant for our consumption.
The WH correspondents dinner could be seen as a confirmation of this.
And maybe just maybe the aiding and abetting of all this BS is all just another corporate media fallacy that the people are awakening to.
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
The old white women beleive it.
Even though everyone blames old white men, it's the old white women who stick their fingers in their ears and are determined to have their symbolic woman. Thank whatever deity that young women still have brains. As for me, I'd rather vote for the other woman, the one with a medical degree instead of a law degree.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
In this metric, the US is regarded as a failed state:
Public trust in various media has been polled by the majors, like Gallup, for decades. On this particular metric, the US is down there with Nigeria and Pakistan.
On the metric of public trust in their leaders and the democratic process, Americans don't really believe a word their leaders say. The US makes Honduras look like Plato's Republic.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
We don't believe them yet
we keep voting for them, supposedly.
you got it right "now is the time of monsters"
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley