[lbo-talk] It's May Day....

[shrill.polemic]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 6:33 PM,  <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
> Fox is a useful villain, but the problem is systemic. 95% of US TV
> programming is controlled by this gang:
>
> http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main
>
> And the Big Six are chasing after their share of $500 billion in annual
> advertising expenditure. Fox could stop broadcasting tomorrow, but nothing
> would change.
>
> The only solution: build the digital commons, pixel by pixel.
>
> -- DRR

Isn't part of it that Fox (and most of the rest of commercial media)
say things and characterize events in a way that many people in the
U.S. like to hear?

shrill