[lbo-talk] Media Concentration database--where's it at?

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 2 09:50:35 PST 2006


A generation ago, maybe, but the frequent references in Chomsky, Herman, et. al,. to the "lively and vigorous working class press" of the 19th century can't be total horseshit, either. I dunno how many of those relied on economies of scale, or like the socialist rag Sinclair's stuff was printed in early on.

True, this is going back more than a generation ago, but there's not much of a lively and vigorous working class press today, either, though we do, yeah, get stuff like The Daily Show, which also doesn't touch some sacred cows, like the Israeli-Palestinian situation, and in a segment of Frey's fictions that chastised the media for being relentless on Frey while letting other lies slide, did not mention the chief work of fiction of them all, The Holy Bible, which likewise has devout followers who prize "the underlying message," its redepmtive features, for ex. (I still love the show, however.)

-B.

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Doug Henwood wrote:

"Exactly. Local papers (and TV & radio stations) in the US almost universally suck. There's a lot more diversity on cable TV now than there was on broadcast TV a generation ago. It's far better to have the NYT in national distribution than to rely on the birdcage liners that pass for newspapers in much of the country. Can we grow out of this one?"

Carrol Cox wrote:

"How then were 1000 or 10,000 capitalist owners (almost all a monopoly in their localities) any better than 50. Upton Sinclair in The Brass Check notes that no paper in one large city would print a news story on a rape of a woman by the son of a large department store owner."



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