I don't see tin-foil hat plots in the news. Unfortunately, I see pin-striped suits and marketing geeks named Chip.
They write the stories (and keep pumping the stories) that generate the eyeballs, which generate the dollars. It is no accident there are cat videos on large national news sites. Although most editors at traditional news sources live life left-of-center, most owners of those very same outlets live life way to the right. And the publishers/directors at those sources used to have come up through the journalism side of the house. now most of the publishers have come up through the marketing or circulation side of the house, or were hired out of an MBA track from some non-media company. I don't see an Illuminati plot, just nice regular evil "lowest common denominator" business choices. On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Politicians have always been bought and sold. The propaganda machine > has always existed and has only worsened with the advent of the 24 > hour cable news cycle. As Eisenhower stated many years ago: "In the > councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of > unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the > military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of > misplaced power exists, and will persist." > > Trillions of dollars have been spent on wars in the last fourteen > years. Those who have been the recipients of most of that money have > enormous amount of influence and they don't want the gravy train > derailed. Doing what is necessary to keep the money flowing to them > is happening. That is reality. And except for the purchases from > Alcoa, it has nothing to do with tin-foil. > > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 4:21 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> The made-up stuff is what they create as red herrings to divert > >> attention from the real problems, which they either have no idea how > >> to solve, or the puppet masters don't want solved. > >> > > > > And that's where my brain goes to tinfoil-hat land. > > > > The short of the conspiracy is that there is a growing contingent, > > regardless of political affiliation, that doesn't want the real problems > to > > come to light so they manipulate the presentation of the news so that the > > divide deepens, the debate rages and their actions can continue > unnoticed. > > > > The more these things come up, the more the news hyper-focuses on one > > specific thing for an extended period of time be it comments made by a > NBA > > owner or what the secretary of state says or even the state of the > economy, > > the easier it is for them to manipulate or anticipate the reaction. > > > > I'm not convinced that anything that I've just written is 100% true... > but > > the fact that so many different items keep coming up keeps me wondering. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:370595 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
