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is that the corrupted airways need to be retaken, not merely abandoned. Scissors cuts paper. The most effective public forum remains the passive TV and fake interactive radio and traditional newspapers. In restoring non-partisan professionalism to provide Americans the truth they need there needs to be a liberation of corporate news. The GOP nearly- or did- ruin our political institutions. Our communication and social networking in this day and age needs its health restored.
In fact, we NEVER had it so. The true revolution has begun in the Internet but do not forget the corporate assault, first as competition then as takeover has been warring there as well. The awakening of a new democracy based on full truth investigating and wide open communal interaction should "blowback' into TV land and the others- those passive, often dangerous feeders and bleeders. TO reclaim the airways, as people like Robert parry has been warning, is imperative. Without a "radical" reformulation of news in those media there at least must be competition(coming next year, we hope with not just "progressive" slant but full information access which it will instantly monopolize) and regulation. They cannot be the destructive opposite of what a vital democracy- or civilization of any sort- needs. Public access means public responsibility. Which means public service in the form of journalism and fairness in presentation of opinions. Who among us would not match truth for lies and in our progressive populist viewpoints let the chips fall where they may?
The business world is revolted by "populist" government that might ruin the Ponzi profit spiral and has had their say with money versus people. They always will, but no longer can that be allowed to deny human rights and civil society its very existence. The despotic control of news flow has been a bad joke but an entrenched empire, leaving a world of passive illusions and insane adventures with a fake overcoat of reality in which wolves strut before the mirror. To us, they are naked. With a fuller affirmation of the rule of the whole truth, the freedom of speech, humanity can choose their destiny as now they are only free to choose cigarettes and which gas guzzler to buy.
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