media is a joke

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They keep moving this article on me, it's been mirrored though. I recommend you book mark it though.
Elites Push Government-funded "Public" Media
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/3302-elites-push-government-funded-public-media

Here's just a small sample of this terrific piece that they keep on moving and trying to shut down. If they do again, the articles image, title and content is completely archived at Ron Paul's blog site.

. . .The Pratt House Matrix and "Ruling Class Journalists"
Big Media has been the handmaiden to Big Government for decades. Now that the Internet and independent media are challenging the statist game plan, Big Media and Big Government are desperately seeking to formally legitimize their longstanding illicit affair. To longtime observers it is not in the least surprising that the key players in this perverse Big Government-Big Media-Big Foundation symbiosis seem to hale disproportionately from the membership roster of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Like the slime trail that leads to the slug, most of the major efforts to centralize, nationalize, and cartelize political and economic power over the past century can be traced back to the CFR and the matrix of corporations, foundations, think tanks, and universities its members dominate. So it is with the current push to have the federal government fund and control more and more of the media. Dr. Bollinger (of Columbia University and the Federal Reserve) is a CFR member. As are Alberto Ibarg?en, president and CEO of the Knight Foundation and Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, key operatives leading the FOCAS campaign.

Listed as "FOCAS 2010 leaders and experts" are CFR members Marcus Brauchli (the Washington Post), Alberto Ibarg?en, (besides heading the Knight Foundation he is also chairman of both the World Wide Web Foundation and the Newseum in Washington, D.C.), Vivian Schiller (National Public Radio), Paul Steiger, (ProPublica), Ernest J. Wilson III (Annenberg School for Communication), Norman Ornstein (American Enterprise Institute), Charlie Firestone (Aspen Institute), Barbara Cochran and (University of Missouri School of Journalism).

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The CFR's "Profile of the Membership" in its 2008 Annual Report lists 398 members as journalists, correspondents, and editors. That includes members such as:

Michael P. Hirsh (Newsweek)
Jim Hoagland (Washington Post)
Fareed Zakaria (Time, CNN)
Thomas Friedman (New York Times)
Erin Burnett (CNBC)
Ethan Bronner (New York Times)
Paula Zahn (Discovery cable channel)
Heather Nauert (Fox News)
Norman Podhoretz (Commentary magazine)
Tom Brokaw (NBC)
Lesley Stahl (CBS)
Andrea Michell (NBC)
Elaine Sciolino (New York Times)
Diane Sawyer (ABC)
Deroy Murdock (Scripps Howard News Service and National Review Online)
David Ignatius (Washington Post)
Alan S. Murray (Wall Street Journal)
Jim Lehrer (PBS)
Margaret Warner (PBS)
Judy Woodruff (PBS)
Christopher Dickey (Newsweek)
Mortimer Zuckerman (U.S. News & World Report)

The above list barely scratches the surface of the elite media folks tied to Pratt House, the New York headquarters of the Council, located at 58 East 68th Street in Manhattan. The nearly 400 "Journalists, Correspondents, and Editors" counted on the CFR rolls does not include the many additional CFR members who are the executive officers of major media corporations. They may or may not be publicly well known but they are the bosses of the more visible members of the Fourth Estate. These include CFR members such as:

Michael Bloomberg (Mayor of New York City, founder/owner Bloomberg L.P.)

Rupert Murdoch (chairman, CEO News Corporation)

Jeffrey Bewkes (Chairman, CEO of Time Warner, in which capacity he oversees Time, CNN, TNT, HBO, TBS, Warner Bros., etc.)

Christopher Isham (CBS News vice president), and Barry Diller (IAC/InterActiveCorp and Washington Post).

In addition to the above-mentioned individual members there are CFR Corporate Members, which are major financial supporters of the CFR and its programs and agenda. The media organizations that have become CFR Corporate Members include Time Warner, ABC Inc., Bloomberg, News Corporation, General Electric (NBC Universal), Google, Thomson Reuters, and the Washington Post.

The Washington Post's ombudsman and columnist Richard Harwood detailed the CFR's domination of his own profession in an October 30,1993, column tellingly entitled "Ruling Class Journalists." In what was a rare admission (and/or boast) from a CFR establishment journal, Harwood characterized CFR members as "the nearest thing we have to a ruling establishment in the United States."

Harwood wrote:

In the past 15 years, council directors have included Hedley Donovan of Time Inc., Elizabeth Drew of the New Yorker, Philip Geyelin of The Washington Post, Karen Elliott House of the Wall Street Journal, and Strobe Talbott of Time magazine...

The editorial page editor, deputy editorial page editor, executive editor, managing editor, foreign editor, national affairs editor, business and financial editor and various writers as well as Katharine Graham, the paper's principal owner, represent The Washington Post in the council's membership.

The executive editor, managing editor and foreign editor of the New York Times are members, along with the executives of such other large newspapers as the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, the weekly news magazines, network television executives and celebrities, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Jim Lehrer, for example, and various columnists, among them Charles Krauthammer, William Buckley, George Will and Jim Hoagland.

Harwood noted that the CFR's Ruling Class Journalists (CFR-RCJ) "do not merely analyze and interpret foreign policy; they help make it." And not only foreign policy, of course; they have also had (and continue to have) a huge hand in making domestic policy as well. They are not content, however, with the illicit power they already wield. They are upset that millions of Americans refuse to accept their direction and continue to seek news and information from sources beyond the control (as yet) of the CFR-RCJ thought cartel. So they are trying to build a fake public consensus in favor of taxing the American public to provide the CFR-RCJ cartel with tens of billions of dollars in government funding to force us to hear and see and read what they think is important for us.

The problem with the media is it is in service to those that control the culture. The cultural, political and financial elites that run the show are the same ones that run the media, so they are the ones that determine what goes on in the media. This then explains their attempts to control the internet as well. I once was a member of a different forum. I used to continually rail on this subject, and the topic of non-profit foundations and how they fund media, think tanks, and universities. These foundations have been founded by the same elites that have made are making the most money in the system, so they necessarily are the ones that want to control how the system works. They ARE the social engineers. Don't ever go on to a science forum and remind scientists that the ancient origins of all colleges and universities were founded by the world's major religions, and that they are today completely biased in their administrative and political working.

Let's even take this site. Can this site claim to be unbiased? Surely not. It has advertisers. The world is a business. That means we are are slaves, producing content, generating revenue for it's advertisers. We have a sub-forum labeled, "conspiracy theories," that right there de-legitimizes and rational discussion might tarnish the advertisers image. It is a scam and it is crap. Rational people know now that Pearl Harbor wasn't a surprise, they know the Maine wasn't attacked by the Spanish, they know JFK wasn't hit by a lone assassin, they know so much more. . . . but really, we can't say that, we are slaves to business interests. The nation and the world is a business, and we are it's slaves. The media are the elites mouth piece.

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Finally, a direction to this thread. Thank you.

Meanwhile threads co-exist crowing about the ratings of Fox Noise (they're up, it means this, they're down, it means that) as if the Foxes and the alphabets and the ClearChannels are all run by different puppetmasters. And the "liberal media" myth gasps for air, determined to survive despite the readily-obvious megastructure. Of course that myth serves the superstructure's survival, for it would never do to have the plebes see the man behind the curtain.

 

[Ringel05]

media is a joke

You're just now figuring this out??!!

 

[Spoonman]

media is a joke

You're just now figuring this out??!!

Roseanne Rosanadana was more accurate

 

[HomeInspect]

media is a joke

You're just now figuring this out??!!

Roseanne Rosanadana was more accurate

Making the story, and selling the story are the priorities. Not reporting what really happened.