An Age Of Manufacturing Consent Of The Public By The U.S. Corporate News Media

Omar Moore looks at how the U.S. corporate cable news media softens the general public into acceptance of corporatists as political leaders (and vice versa), as well as the revolving door of some media pundit/analysts to government cabinet positions and back. The pernicious trend has gone on ever since the scrapping of the Fairness Doctrine by Ronald Reagan’s FCC in 1987 and Bill Clinton’s deregulation of the media in 1996 via the Telecommunications Act. December 19, 2020. Featured in this episode: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand, by David Barstow (NY Times) April 20, 2008: https://nyti.ms/3h2JWux IMPORTANT— Please phonebank *now* for: Jon Ossoff for Georgia US Senate: https://electjon.com AND Rev. Raphael Warnock for Georgia US Senate: https://votewarnock.com VOTE EARLY! Voting by mail is going on now in Georgia. Early in-person voting starts: December 14. Plus— FULL VIDEO (Nov. 30) THE POLITICRAT podcast episode—a conversation with Professor of Law Dorit Reiss (University of California at Hastings College of Law) about vaccines, coronavirus and ethics. https://bit.ly/3fUL4Qb NOTE: You can now listen to THE POLITICRAT daily podcast free on Audible: https://adbl.co/35MvRNL Latest post at Medium: VICTORY. https://bit.ly/2UkcWU5 MOORE THOUGHTS —The Day After Tomorrow: https://bit.ly/3l5CZdl Omar’s film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju). MOORE THOUGHTS: moore.substack.com. Moore On Medium: medium.com/@omooresf The Politicrat YouTube page: bit.ly/3bfWk6V The Politicrat Facebook page: bit.ly/3bU1O7c The Politicrat blog: politicrat.politics.blog PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to this to this podcast! Follow/tweet Omar at: http://twitter.com/thepopcornreel