tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post2409942643849897139..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Hedges' 'Great Forgetting'The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-80124251120739827172016-01-17T12:27:53.916-08:002016-01-17T12:27:53.916-08:00Hi Mound' I feel like there are 2 issues. Need...Hi Mound' I feel like there are 2 issues. Need for anti monopoly legislation and need for big public funding. There seems to be several people including yourself talking about the first and I agree totally on that. <br /><br />What about the second issue? Has anyone else proposed the - like a big public library thing? they talk about - "pick and pay" but they don't talk about "you pick and everyone pays."<br /><br />Not sure if you are an American. I am a Canadian. We have a Canadian Broadcast Act but we do not yet have a Canadian Streaming Media Act. That is what I am hoping for. Modeled roughly on our Canada Health Act. The Health Act essentially puts in place around $200 Billion of funding for heath services in the country. A Canadian Streaming Media Act that provides $40 Billion of funding for streamed media that is free of advertising, would quickly resolve the problems associated with relying on advertising revenue. http://no-ads.ca/why-replace-media-ads/Breezy Brian Gregghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06363542498767795285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-13920002200181883602016-01-16T19:34:25.447-08:002016-01-16T19:34:25.447-08:00Hi, Brian. You've touched on a common theme of...Hi, Brian. You've touched on a common theme of this blog - the need to dismantle the corporate media cartel as the first step in democratic restoration. I'm not so ready as you to abandon conventional information services because I doubt the public is on that page yet. It will, however, come there with time.<br /><br />We need the most diversely held media representing the broadest spectrum of political views from far left to far right and everything in between. This means prohibiting undue concentration of ownership and media cross-ownership in markets small and large. In other words, we must compel divestiture, break up the cartel.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-65822695179699370692016-01-16T16:44:11.854-08:002016-01-16T16:44:11.854-08:00Hedges frustrates me. He tells highly detailed sto...Hedges frustrates me. He tells highly detailed stories of disgusting scenarios. He is a rage and disgust profiteer. Never looks for or reports on solutions. <br /><br />Failing to fund a big public media insures the existence of a commercial, marketing - led media, which becomes a tool for the rich to misinform the public for profit.<br /><br />I feel so alone. It seems no one else in the world gets this, that to enable a progressive society we need to create a big public media to replace the disgustingly inequitable media of the 21st century.<br /><br />In Canada this would require new legislation - The Canadian Streaming Public Media Act. <br /><br />with a $40 billion per year budget to fund a you pick and everyone pays system - National Streaming Public Media Service.<br /><br />Streamed electronic media is different than hard commodities. To produce one extra barrel of oil costs almost as much again as the first barrel of oil. The cost of producing one extra copy of a media program is almost zero.<br /><br />It does not make sense to have media streaming mega corporations acting as monopoly gate keepers collecting a fee for each copy streamed. ( net flicks, apple to name two )<br /><br />http://no-ads.ca<br />Breezy Brian Gregghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06363542498767795285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-62955886644534818192016-01-12T10:51:37.436-08:002016-01-12T10:51:37.436-08:00I think you nailed it, Sal, when you observed that...I think you nailed it, Sal, when you observed that Hedges does a terrific job but just can't get through. Like automatons we've been conditioned by so much received wisdom, enough that we've come to believe things that, on those increasingly rare moments when we're able to see them clearly we come to realize are untruths essential to our conditioning.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-48950758984506846482016-01-12T06:07:24.372-08:002016-01-12T06:07:24.372-08:00.. an afterthought..
p'raps our politicians p..... an afterthought..<br /><br />p'raps our politicians partisan pundits et al.. are just that..<br />Strippers .. and they're wearing us ..<br /><br />Some I believe, dance privately<br />and provide even more 'services' than massage or message<br />but then.. that might be gilding the lilythe salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-49070683975157412112016-01-12T05:22:00.903-08:002016-01-12T05:22:00.903-08:00.. unfortunately.. its difficult to distill Marsha..... unfortunately.. its difficult to distill Marshall McLuhan into a compulsory innoculation for those transfixed by TV advertising with its tagalong pablum TV.. whether Reality, Fashion, Insult, Gossip etc. Chris Hedges does a fab job.. but can't get through. The stunning rise of either idiotic or disastrous political animals is exactly as described - 'what is vomited up from the sewer'<br /><br />What we need is new heroes who can jam reality in the faces of the masses by their actions. Unfortunately, being a hero these days is a tough gig.. Snowden for example.. or that corporal now ensconsed in prison for life. I'm still patiently waiting for the guy or girl who blows the bizarre Harper, Novak, Byrne, Hamilton vipers nest sky high. Poutine scattered everywhere & a stinking stench that folks will never forget<br /><br />I always remember that great Tom Wolfe story of attending a strip bar for lunch in San Fran with a dozen Financial Bankers in identical blue suits and Marashall MacLuhan. On entering one of the bankers proclaimed in shock 'my God.. they're naked!' But in that split second Marshall said 'No they're not.. they're wearing us !'<br /><br />I sure don't have the solution.. but believe modern folklore and modern heroes are desperately needed. I also believe we have reached a Media Tipping Point.. where public perception & belief can be driven via the web - the world is essentially networked.. and just as creeps can rise to pre-eminance.. so can whistleblowers, folk heroes, artists tip the media scales against them.the salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-11545416457671741172016-01-11T13:10:15.996-08:002016-01-11T13:10:15.996-08:00It's not that, you pompous ass. This is not a ...<br />It's not that, you pompous ass. This is not a forum for you to post YouTube music videos. They add nothing to the conversation. I feel the loss of David Bowie, most of us do. That doesn't mean there's any reason for you to find some YouTube video and post the link here. There isn't. Move along.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-33691714211866276952016-01-11T12:56:29.216-08:002016-01-11T12:56:29.216-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-74974470088028294762016-01-11T12:42:10.648-08:002016-01-11T12:42:10.648-08:00Toby, I've come to realize just how thoroughly...<br />Toby, I've come to realize just how thoroughly conditioned we have become. My focus has mainly been with the corporate media and how it narrowed our political focus even as it fed us a diet of directed messaging packaged as information.<br /><br />During of the Bush presidency, 60 Minutes did a segment with two senior Republicans who described their party's information/propaganda programme which used a 3-tier formula for disseminating even blatant falsehoods. Notions were launched in open-line radio where they were repeated (laundered) enough to progress on to cable outlets such as FOX where, again, they were repeated enough, processed, until they permeated mainstream media outlets even to the top, The New York Times.<br /><br />The example they used was the Swift Boat campaign to discredit John Kerry. It was, of course, a complete fabrication, a total smear job. It was launched on Limbaugh and other rightwing open mouth radio shows. From there it was FOXified and spread through other cable news/public affairs operators and finally made its way straight into the New York Times. In the process a complete tissue of lies was fabricated into conventional wisdom.<br /><br />It's a powerful vehicle for both distraction and disinformation and I doubt the lunatics of the Tea Party would have gained such power without it.<br /><br />Another example is the non-event 'scandal' over climate scientists allegedly doctoring facts. There never was anything to it but a large segment of the public believed it to be true.<br /><br />Then there was the survey that found 60% of FOX viewers believed Saddam's WMDs had been located fully two years after the White House admitted that none existed.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-46725739553749587592016-01-11T12:39:44.765-08:002016-01-11T12:39:44.765-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-29632030264673478842016-01-11T12:17:59.711-08:002016-01-11T12:17:59.711-08:00The problem, as I see it, is that the vast majorit...The problem, as I see it, is that the vast majority like everything dumbed-down.Tobynoreply@blogger.com