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Cartoonist

(7,323 posts)
Sat Aug 18, 2012, 06:23 PM Aug 2012

GE & NBC

This is just to name two bedfellows and the impact of Citizens United.
Since PAC's don't need to disclose anything of substance, what's to stop GE from buying ad time on NBC? Since most of the media is conservative owned, what's to stop them from buying ad time on their own soapbox?
What a rigged system!

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GE & NBC (Original Post) Cartoonist Aug 2012 OP
NBC PD Turk Aug 2012 #1
I don't know if they are conservative or liberal. They like to rig the rules so that they win. twins.fan Aug 2012 #2
I think GE sold their stake in NBC. twins.fan Aug 2012 #3
 

twins.fan

(310 posts)
2. I don't know if they are conservative or liberal. They like to rig the rules so that they win.
Sat Aug 18, 2012, 06:36 PM
Aug 2012

Whether it is elections, or the so-called think tanks, corporate America is spreading lies that benefit themselves. The "think tanks" call themselves think tanks to attempt falsely portray themselves as objective and independent, when we all know that the so-called think tanks are actually public relations devices manipulated by their sponsors to send out fables and present it as research.

Bill Gates for instance is pumping bunches of money into these think tanks, both left and right to present the argument that there is a shortage of highly skilled workers so that Microsoft can layoff more US STEM workers and backfill those jobs with workers coming to the US on the H1B visa. Then to top it off, Gates calls that activity "philanthropy."

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