Our media is a melting-pot of misinformation, bought and owned by billionaires and oligarchs, whether it is public, private, or foundation-funded. Information is integral, propaganda is power, and media is money. Control of the media leads directly to control of the minds of those who consume it, and like all patterns of consumption, it is sustained by profit, but its purpose is much deeper, more pervasive and permanent: social control.God, I needed this after viewing some of the worst TV ever over breakfast. The "news" coverage seemed worse than ever before: filled with sex scandals, the new Microsoft electronic gadget that everyone in the media is going gaga over, and more gun violence in Seattle. It's the same coverage across all the stations. It is as if there were a ministry of propaganda somewhere that was feeding news items to all TV stations. I wanted to scream! Then I read this article and my sanity was restored.
We simply must find a way to support alternative journalists like the Canadian Andrew Gavin Marshall.