Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 07, 2010
May 06, 2010
May 08, 2010
Transcript:
Man: I've been overwhelmed by an all-consuming sense of outrage lately. Psychiatrist: Mm-hmm... Over what? Man: Well, that's just it... I'm angry all the time over stuff I really don't know anything about or that actually affects me. Psychiatrist: Have you tried turning off the TV and reading a newspaper? Man: What's a newspaper? Psychiatrist: I should've gone into dentistry...
Remember that the Secret Police (that un-named Company) have planted agents in foreign press offices (and now domestic ones as well), to float stories that then get picked up on the ‘wire’ and regurgitated as ‘news’, and are verified and cross-checked from the other sources (working for the same agency). This has gone on for decades.
Then we have those ‘liberal’ ‘lefty’ reporters. They work for corporate-owned organizations, whose editors and managers control what gets put out. Six (or is it five now?) conglomerates own all of the media. Guess whose word is law there?
And with shrinking budgets for ‘the news hole’, amongst the ‘product’ (ads), too frequently we will see a corporate or government news release run as though it was straight news.
Paddy Chayefsky and Marshall McLuhan both had it right, and we have to look to several sources, and de-calibrate their respective biases, to get anything like a clear view of reality.
Now we are seeing the near-demise of Net Neutrality, wherein the mega-media giant running your ISP can throttle the bandwidth of anything they don’t like. The FCC has an uphill battle to try to keep the ‘Net from becoming birdcage filler (but without the fish-n-chips value).