The elephant in the room: the media and the healthcare debate

There has been much discussion concerning the rancour and coverage of what passes for debate by the RW. I posted this within a thread earlier today but wanted to make this observation about the hyped up media coverage of the "debate" stand alone.

If the insurance companies bite the dust, where will the media--corporate media--get its advertising revenues. They cannot broadcast advertisements from tobacco, alcohol, or targeting children. The media is saturated with ads from big pharma, insurance, and electronics. The only other types of ads I can think of are for from the food industry, banking/finance, fashion/cosmetic, and travel industries. However, we are largely inundundated by ads for drugs and insurance. The media is not the Fourth Estate as envisioned by the founders. It is a stakeholder in the health care debate. Especially since it becomes increasingly difficult for MSM to grab market share in the age of the internet. As long as the internet remains relatively inexpensive to use, people will rely on other sources of news. Witness the tabloidization of the news. They are going beyond this. National policy and the mechanisms of government are being shaped like reality shows.

In this time, the combined voices of the citizen becomes even more important in drowning out the megaphone the media holds up to corporate interests. We need to shout back. The media is neither conservative or liberal, it is corporate.

For that matter, we would still have supplemental private insurance. So insurance would advertise too.

Advertising would be a must for supplemental to fly.

I don't believe in private media!

OMG why does this thread only have 1 rec!?! Seriously the corporate media deserves a big extended middle finger pointed in their direction.

That's elephant.

To these assholes we are nothing more than a commodity.