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

[Carrol Cox]

Whad DRR overlooks is what Doug has pointed out a number of times. The
digital commons he dreams of will only be able to repeat the information
it receives from the same six sources. That is true of blogs etc now:
they read the papers or perhaps AP dispataches, then give it their own
spin. They have no independent source of information. Don't convuse news
_collection_ with news distribution. The latter is dependent on the
former.

Carrol

brad wrote:
> 
> >* 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
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I don't know what "the way that many people in the US like to hear" means.
> Do you mean that they are genetically predisposed to like to hear these
> things?  Or do you mean that because of the particular socialization and
> political/economic environment combined with the prior programing by
> commercial media people like these things?
> 
> DDR, I don't think this is true.  It is not just that they are capitalist
> media firms.  There is also the historical process of the particular class
> struggle interacting with specific forms of political, cultural and
> social processes of development.  In a word: contingency.  It
> isn't predetermined that capitalist media will take the particular form that
> Fox News has.
> 
> Brad
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