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Fire Walk With Me

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6. Media in the States are owned by six Plutonomy corporations. What are the Trends?

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 07:11 PM

Feb 2013

-Media are driving sensationalism and reactionism, which takes us out of “innocent until proven guilty” into an eye for an eye and the given assumption that this is right and somehow “our” duty to be easy-chair judges. American media are owned by six corporations. Corporations ARE the Plutonomists. Plutonomists are driving emotionally-based lifestyles instead of the rule of law and judicial system. This is exacerbated by the “terrorist” meme as well as Obama's secret “kill list” and “legal” justification of extra-judicial executions of Americans suspected of terrorism or terrorist ties.
Fox “News”, the purposeful dumbing-down of America?

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