[For the record, I would advise anyone that asks, to vote for ANY
ONE BUT A BUSH!! I feel strongly that a vote for Bush is a vote
for pure and utter evil. However, I have been saying that the
Clinton Propaganda Machine would make Josef Goebels (Hitler's
minister of propaganda) envious. This articles emphasizes the
point.]
The trillion dollar propaganda machine
By Joe Schembrie web posted September 11, 2000
If George W. Bush loses this election, it won't be because of a
convention kiss. It won't be because he wasn't conservative
enough or liberal enough. It won't be because of his lack of
experience or a disreputable past.
It'll be because he's up against a trillion dollar propaganda
machine known as the Liberal Media.
And a trillion dollars is probably an understatement. The
AOL-TimeWarner deal, if it goes through, will form a conglomerate
worth over six hundred billion dollars just by itself. Add in
the other TV network/magazine/newspaper/movie production
conglomerates, and you'll end up with trillions of dollars in
capital investment. And all of it is dedicated toward the cause
of liberalism.
Forget the influence of liberals in the groves of academe. The
average voter never encountered a social science college
professor in his life, and even if he did, he probably came away
from the experience unimpressed.
Forget the liberal propaganda instilled by the public school
system -- if anything, that thirteen-year sentence in civic
propaganda is probably a great assist to the conservative cause.
And forget the labor unions, whose forcibly-extracted dues are
provoking unrest within the ranks.
Nope, all the supposed sources of liberal political power fade in
comparison to the news and entertainment mass media. People who
would critically analyze the words of a college professor, public
school teacher, or their own union boss will swallow anything
they see on TV or in a newspaper or magazine headline. Not that
the public doesn't recognize something fishy is going on -- but
they continue to buy into it nonetheless.
What harms the conservative cause the most is not the
editorializing, it's the card-stacking. The media will talk for
months about Bush's alleged drug use, but not a word about the
many eyewitness accounts of Clinton and Gore drug use. That Bush
and Cheney worked in the oil industry is enough for journalists
to keep insinuating bribery and corruption for years to come; Al
Gore's red-handed bribe-taking at the Buddhist Temple is already
long-forgotten.
Worse than anything the news media does, is the not-so-subtle
character assassination in the so-called 'entertainment' media.
Late-night comedians have planted the notion that George W.
Bush is an idiot -- though his SAT scores were higher than Al
Gore's and, unlike Gore, Bush actually finished graduate school.
But that won't stop Letterman from wisecracking that Bush doesn't
know there are ninety minutes in an hour and a half and that
there are only fifty (not fifty-two) states in the Union. Don't
forget to laugh.
The more subtle they are, the more outrageous they are. During
the Lewinsky scandal, you couldn't watch a television sitcom
without learning a Valuable Lesson that concludes it's best to
'let sleeping dogs lie' when it comes to adultery. And by the
time you finished digesting that, along came another story line,
teaching America's youth that telling the truth only hurts
people. The government rewards television producers for
inserting anti-drug messages into their story lines, but partisan
nihilism comes for free.
People who will never watch a news program do watch these
entertainment shows, and form their political perceptions
thereby. The Republican presidential candidate has a budget of
about a hundred million dollars for brief TV commercials with
which to counter this round-the-clock, trillion dollar propaganda
machine's onslaught. Expect October Surprises.
The mainstream media today is perhaps the most spectacular case
of market failure in the history of capitalist economics.
Detroit tried to unload big cars on the driving public, and
failed. Coca Cola tried to ram New Coke down the throats of
consumers, and failed. But for decades now the dominant liberal
media has spewed liberal pap onto the eyeballs of an essentially
conservative viewership, and their monopoly remains unchallenged.
Will market forces ever prevail?
Translation: Will people ever get wise?
Perhaps someday. Talk radio and the Internet are eating into the
liberal media monolith, and the networks and newsmagazines are
showing nearly a ten percent annual decline in viewers and
readers. If trends continue, the captive audience of the liberal
media will be cut in half by 2008.
But that is scant consolation for an ex-fighter pilot with a
master's degree, who for now must endure being called stupid by
the college drop-outs running the late night talk shows.
Joe Schembrie is a senior writer for Enter Stage Right and can be
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