Saturday, January 17, 2015

Occupy Madison Avenue !

 Occupy Madison Avenue !

We should refer to US mainstream television as MAINLINE television , because it is like a mental intravenous drug feeding line plugged into a hospital patient's main arteries.


uzette Sommer shared Join the Coffee Party Movement's photo.
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The Fourth Estate is dead.
No wonder our country is so messed up.
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  • Sheridan Tatsuno But social media is replacing mass media among Millennials, so grassroots media is compensating for this mass media concentration.
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  • Suzette Sommer I am so disgusted with mass media at this point, I could spit. I gave up on TV in 2002 - but now even news radio is going right wing. I used to work in TV ... and cannot believe what passes as "news" today. The talking head shows give me hives. The Fourth Estate is dead. People who do not seek out good journalists to read have no idea what the hell is going on. It is absolutely disturbing. I talk to people who have no idea who Liz Warren is, have no idea what ALEC is - do not know who the Koch brothers are - and they are not stupid people - they simply do not read. They get their "news" from broadcast - I guess! Or maybe they pay no attention at all.
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  • Lare Plus The news media needs to be broken up and oriented back toward public service or they should lose their licenses. Satellite and cable need similar regulation. . .
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  • Lare Plus And something needs to be done to support news magazines and papers. . .we simply can't lose those media or use them unwisely. It's a great detriment to the nation's intellectual reserve. .
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  • Sheridan Tatsuno Subscribers will determine the fate of old media and social media. Whatever media addresses public concerns best will survive. Policies can try to prop up dying media, but it's a futile cause (e.g. the record industry). Crowdfunding (i.e. voting with money) for new media is probably the most democratic approach today.
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  • Lare Plus Everything is for profit and it is dragging us down. . .it makes me sick! I could start ranting any minute now!
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  • Sheridan Tatsuno People voting with their traffic, money and purchases is a lot more democratic than top-down government policies which are usually controlled by monied interests.
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  • Suzette Sommer Here is the problem: Journalism used to be both a business and a calling. Journalists had pride in winning journalistic awards, not just being notorious or popular. TV news was a community service, not a profit center. Other programming profits supported the news department - it was not judged as a stand alone based on income. Having a FCC license required networks and stations to provide good news coverage as a community service, and those licenses were reviewed annually with community input to see if they would be renewed. FOX News changed all that. As a cable entertainment network masquerading as news, they do not need an FCC license - but they have made a lot of money. As corporations bought out families that used to own stations, all they care about is ad dollars and ratings - they do not give a shit about journalism.

    Same with the big networks - they are just part of big business now - they are no longer an industry with industry standards.

    The whole purpose of news has changed.

    It cannot be replaced piece meal by volunteers.

    This is a disaster for democracy. The Fourth Estate had a big role to play in our society, and it has been smashed to bits.
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  • Charles Brown Truly, Suzette Sommer: Freedom of the Press for them that owns the presses.
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