Who owns America?
Well, of course, it’s the liberal media. Duh.
That has been the standard claim made by all conservative media speakers for decades.
Well, if the liberal media is the origin of all evil in the world according to all conservative media speakers, who owns the platforms that broadcast conservative media speaker voices?
Rupert Murdoch is one of the major players. You know, the Australian media mogul who came to the United States via England and recently bought the Wall Street Journal (and turned it into pure trash) after being unable to buy the NY Times. Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who owns a gigantic swath of the American media landscape and who is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Murdoch, who came to America to buy, consolidate, aggregate and conglomerate as much of the American media world as he can, has consistently delivered a message that is pure poison to the America that he came to conquer. Why does Murdoch hate the United States so much that he gave us Fox News?
Murdoch has also been very influential in the affairs of Great Britain because of his media holdings there. But, recently, I believe, the British have had the good sense to shut down most of the Murdoch media empire in Great Britain. I guess they figured enough is enough. Good for them. But, what lasting corrosive effects have the editorial bias and policies of Rupert Murdoch had on British Society and culture? I hope it’s nothing that the culture and people of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland can’t correct so that they can truly become a United Kingdom. United against all that Rupert Murdoch stands for and promotes.
And now, Americans are becoming more familiar with Sinclair Broadcasting, the owners of about 40% of all television stations across the United States. Sinclair Broadcasting wants to expand its media ownership to include Tribune Corporation Media holdings and if that is okayed by the government and occurs, Sinclair will achieve its goal of becoming the owners of almost all television airwaves in the United States. Sinclair Broadcasting is owned and run by a single family with a single ideology and they don’t shrink away from disseminating their views and requiring the television stations they own and control to espouse their agenda and propaganda. I am using political terms because the nature of the business of Sinclair Broadcasting is also blatantly political. They serve up conservative, status quo political views and positions so as to inform the public the way they want the public to be informed. In Sinclair Broadcasting, there is no independence of truly valid independent journalism or respect for reality and/or factual reporting of news. The company started out in Maryland and has expanded across the entire country. There is nothing that Sinclair Broadcasting would like more than to own and/or control more if not ALL of the television airwaves in the entire United States. That way there would be no way for anyone anywhere to escape their propaganda and Orwellian messaging. There are lots of descriptors for what Sinclair Broadcasting does. One thing is certain. The corporation advances its own messaging and agenda and makes the stations it owns disseminate its views which are straight out of a fascist dystopia. They have developed a very intimate relationship with Trump and his administration and who knows what kind of deals Sinclair Broadcasting is cooking up with Trump. One clue is that Sinclair is working with the Trump administration to advance their acquisition of Tribune Media into their current holdings. If there’s anything in it for Trump, you know he’ll be on board with it, being the emoluments and conflict-of- interest president that he is.
One of the most fascinating and curious issues of this time that we are living through is the use by Sinclair Broadcasting of Russian national propagandists. Doesn’t anyone think it’s just really fucking weird that Sinclair uses Russian commentators like Boris Ephshteyn and Sebastian Gorka to deliver their skewed alternate reality, scare mongering, lies and distortions of the truth, or irrelevant red herrings to get people to not think about or take seriously, serious topics that all Americans should be thinking about and be concerned about? Sinclair wants to feed Americans a specific pablum that distracts, seems to have relevance or to be true, but which actually confuses a lot of people and presents them true fake news and garbage that is NOT journalism, factual, or sensible. Sinclair Broadcasting would have Americans believe and put their full faith into the bizarre distortions and propaganda they disseminate. Again, like Murdoch, why do they hate the United States so much that they force this kind of distortion of reality onto so many of the citizens of this country who have no other option for television viewing than a Sinclair Broadcasting television station?
So, when you hear anyone, whether its a paid conservative commentator or pundit and or someone on the street say something about how the liberal media being is origin and creator of all that is evil in the world, you can thank the largely conservatively owned media empires of people like Rupert Murdoch and Sinclair Broadcasting for it.
And don’t forget, the liberal media owns America, right?
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