Comments on: Media http://makethemaccountable.com/index.php/2007/01/16/media-75/ Making politicians and media accountable to ordinary citizens since 2000. Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:22:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Larry Bergan http://makethemaccountable.com/index.php/2007/01/16/media-75/comment-page-1/#comment-6519 Larry Bergan Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:53:39 +0000 http://makethemaccountable.com/index.php/2007/01/16/media-75/#comment-6519 The Gods have given us a two year reprieve from losing the internet we cherish. The republican stacked FCC included a member who had such a conflict with interest that after the Democrats who the election, he decided to recuse himself from voting to give away control of the internet to giant corporations. I'm sure Netflix was disappointed they will be less able to flood our only path to truth with endlessly inane movies and television shows. Funny how those movie dispensing machines that you can rent movies for a dollar just outside your local McDonald's won't dispense Al Gores "Am Inconvenient Truth!" I'm sure nobody wanted to see that, (sarcasm). The Gods have given us a two year reprieve from losing the internet we cherish. The republican stacked FCC included a member who had such a conflict with interest that after the Democrats who the election, he decided to recuse himself from voting to give away control of the internet to giant corporations.

I’m sure Netflix was disappointed they will be less able to flood our only path to truth with endlessly inane movies and television shows.

Funny how those movie dispensing machines that you can rent movies for a dollar just outside your local McDonald’s won’t dispense Al Gores “Am Inconvenient Truth!” I’m sure nobody wanted to see that, (sarcasm).

]]> By: Larry Bergan http://makethemaccountable.com/index.php/2007/01/16/media-75/comment-page-1/#comment-6518 Larry Bergan Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:42:09 +0000 http://makethemaccountable.com/index.php/2007/01/16/media-75/#comment-6518 News isn't just for the rich and powerful. Hello! Operator, Hello? Nothing illustrates this better then the absolute refusal of all major corporate publications to cover the fact that corporations have been placed in charge of counting our votes at the polls and, in fact, even run the polls. But that's not all. They control all of the other polling data that we rely on. This has turned us into a population driven by absurdly worded, but clever, polling surveys which always make us look like idiots. News isn’t just for the rich and powerful.

Hello! Operator, Hello?

Nothing illustrates this better then the absolute refusal of all major corporate publications to cover the fact that corporations have been placed in charge of counting our votes at the polls and, in fact, even run the polls.

But that’s not all. They control all of the other polling data that we rely on. This has turned us into a population driven by absurdly worded, but clever, polling surveys which always make us look like idiots.

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