Issue Position: Mainstream News Networks Promote Propaganda

Issue Position

The mainstream news media are owned by large corporations and are financed in part by the political parties and banks (with overdue bank loans). In NYC, for example, NYC has provided substantial economic support to the New York Times, with the Mayor saying the payment was needed to encourage the New York Times to remain in New York City and not go to New Jersey. Also, the elected politicians require that certain advertising be published in newspapers. Major corporations buy advertising. All of this supports the newspapers (which now are losing large amounts of money) in their role of preventing voters from finding out how they are being taken to the cleaners during each election and thereafter until the next election.

These publications can be counted on giving no publicity at all to the third parties and their candidates and ideas for reform.

What would you do if you owned a major bank and controlled a major newspaper. Would you allow the newspaper editors the freedom of attacking the banks and encouraging legislation that would regulate the banks and prevent them from repeating their excesses resulting in the economic calamity of 2008 (such as the silent repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act and the silent implementation of the CFMA Act of 2000)?

The oldest propaganda technique is to repeat a lie emphatically and often until it is taken for the truth.

A free press was part of the checks and balances set forth in the U.S. Constitution, but this check and balance has been bought off, together with many of the other checks and balances, so that voters are now down to themselves to try to save the U.S. and the economy. This means that voters need to look at and use VoterLaws to save the economy and country.

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