When the Sarnoff family owned NBC the network actually did news, but the heirs sold the company to General Electric, which has always been a right wing organization--indeed, it kept Ronald Reagan's career alive, and his face in front of the public, as host of "Death Valley Days" in the old B&W days of TV when his career was as dry as the sands of that valley.
Since taking control of NBC, GE has used the network to promote right wing candidates, philosophies, viewpoints almost totally to the exclusion of anything on the Left. And now, with the dismissal of Olberman and Matthews (who isn't any liberal) the exclusion is complete.
Think of it! Expression of the political philosophy that brought the country back from the Great Depression, that invested in the people and in the infrastructure of the people, that produced several of the most successful administrations in history, cannot be heard in America. The muddled slogans, prejudice, and goofy nonsense that passes for conservative "philosophy", and that put the country over a trillion dollars in debt to Communist China, is all that any voters are exposed to. The "philosophy" that has led America to the multiple disasters it is involved in today is the only one voters can hear or see on the public airwaves. How pathetic. This is why the media companies need to be dismantled, all of their licenses cancelled and where appropriate, their executives thrown in prison. Having exclusively right wing media did not help Germans decide the direction of their government in the 1930's, and the exclusive broadcasting of right wing nonsense will not help this country either.
Since taking control of NBC, GE has used the network to promote right wing candidates, philosophies, viewpoints almost totally to the exclusion of anything on the Left. And now, with the dismissal of Olberman and Matthews (who isn't any liberal) the exclusion is complete.
Think of it! Expression of the political philosophy that brought the country back from the Great Depression, that invested in the people and in the infrastructure of the people, that produced several of the most successful administrations in history, cannot be heard in America. The muddled slogans, prejudice, and goofy nonsense that passes for conservative "philosophy", and that put the country over a trillion dollars in debt to Communist China, is all that any voters are exposed to. The "philosophy" that has led America to the multiple disasters it is involved in today is the only one voters can hear or see on the public airwaves. How pathetic. This is why the media companies need to be dismantled, all of their licenses cancelled and where appropriate, their executives thrown in prison. Having exclusively right wing media did not help Germans decide the direction of their government in the 1930's, and the exclusive broadcasting of right wing nonsense will not help this country either.
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