Comments on: Media Change We Can Believe In

by: Louise

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:44:28 +0000

I long for the media of the JFK and Edward R. Murrow days when they concerned themselves with issues and solutions, “Keeping the President’s feet on fire.” What has happened so that know the biggest news is about Brangelina or A-Rod and Madonna, I mean - who cares.

Financially our nation is falling apart because of the deregulation of the banks and lending companies. The results are clear: failing banks, closings of major brokerage firms, foreclosures on individual citizens who have been victimized.

Don’t blame Alan Greenspan either - rather blame the greedy lending companies and those who advertise, “Buy up foreclosed homes.” They are vultures and prey upon people who can ill afford the taxes and/or maintenance on these properties. Seniors are victimized the most - they stand to lose their savings if they have any!

We need government regulation - if you want to call that socialism - so be it - maybe we could use that in our education and healthcare systems too. Citizens vote in Senators and Representatives to advocate for them. Citizens vote in Presidents and their cabinets hoping they will advocate for them. If that’s big government (socialism) - so be it.

These are the times that try mens’ souls! We need our government to use our tax dollars for We The People - not for high level executives and giant corporations such as Oil, Pharmaceuticals and Insurance.

There’s nothin’ surer, The rich get rich and the poor get poorer. Those words boded for the 21st century which is incredible and unspeakable.

by: Robert M. Cerello

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:26:18 +0000

Mr. Jones has perhaps written a classic overview of the specifics of communication, non-fiction, fiction, organizations, governmental and media concerns. he has also probably stressed correctly all the negations visited upon information attestors, purveyors, broadcasters, evaluators and scientists during the last 30 years, and eight years years. What he’s left out if the fundamental need to differentiate attested facts from bilge, standards-based evaluations from sicko attitudes and science from pathological lies and anti-concepts. He’s left out science–categorizing definitions, applied to the regulations of non-fictional utterance and film, the labeling of headlines and information, etc., etc. Where are the regulations? “Fairness” is a totalitarian’s buzz words; as is ‘objective’ coverage when applied to corporate monopolists’ dictation over news content–a non sequitur on its face. Where is the call for more diversity, regulation and oversight, and the punishment of those who abuse the rights of hearers, citizens seeking information, and governmental officers–including licensed broadcast monopolists responsible to the FCC’s commissioners? Where is anything other than a postmodernistic right-wing sick joke pretending the problem is “liberals”–defenders of individuals against tsars, when the neocon elitist tsars in fact control 85% of the national news content, money and power? The ultimate despised minority having crimes committed against them/him is the individual citizen–the talented mind being denied preminence by god-playing incompetent anti-American bigots and control freaks. I hope the next president will be able to do something to infuse individual rights into a monolithic totalitarian bureaucracy of drivel- spouting criminals. If je can’t, then whatever else happens, we won’t be any closer in four years to having realistic elections, money, institutions, rights or fiction or non-fiction in the country. (Yes, it’s actually a rather stodgy pseudo-theocratic empire). Individuals’ rights are the touchstone–because regulations define the extent and rules for the self claiming these. And without individual rights being restored to participants within so-called matketplaces, we will live out our blighted lives in a so-called republic under so-called leaders. But we’ll never have one good day during the whole long sad decline and fall of the USer Empire. Not even if it lasts 500 years.

by: Ricardo

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:56:30 +0000

I agree. We should bury Reganomics, trickle down, Contract with America, Compassionate conservatism, deregulation, etc. as experiments that failed and should be forgotten. We are about to restart the 21st century with different (not always new) ideas that will actually improve this great nation.

Republican influence in the executive, House, and Senate is disappearing and next will be a swing away from influence in the courts. Americans recognize that this influence has hurt America greatly along with a natural and inevitable swing of the pendulum. You need to know something about history to know why it is inevitable.

We should not be satisfied with our push back of failed policies over the last 28 years. We should continue to push back against the voices in the media that have either been just wrong or have lied to us. What is worse, being stupid or being a liar? Now is the time to continue the push and get some fairness in our publicly owned airways. I can think of many better ways to use public airways than lying and stupid.