Of course Chomsky was right! To have a democratization of media there must be equal access with equal opportunity for exposure and that is certainly not a truism.
Three salient points to ponder:
1. There is NO liberal media in the USA... the closest you come is by having a relatively balanced but weak media outlet with the PBS. But it is grossly outnumbered by private interests and so under attack as to be on the point of being relatively obscure to the citizenry.
2. The wealthiest of your society have full control of the media and use it to re-enforce and validate their actions and controls. This they do while following the empirical truth of presenting bread and a variant of gladiatorial games to the public so as to distract and control.
3. The old adage of Lies, Damnable Lies and Statistics holds forth on any such perilously puerile prognostications.
For one of your media commentators to say... Good Night and Good Luck is so apropos to the state of American Media be it digital or otherwise!
The RIAA is slowly being 'dragged and dropped' into the dust-(delete)-bin of history... they just do not get it... and of course the RIAA is just the foremost of the 'archival archosaurians' who want a pound of flesh - even for such a property as a song sung by a many decades deceased crooner... The age of the 'Digital Gutenberg' arrived a long time ago in the age of the new technology...
Pandora's box was opened in the "digital decade" of the last century... and all that which was/is 'ethereal' and 'intangible' can/could be digitized will be/has been... These are the lessons of history... "Do not try to extoll the virtue of nor sell 'immaterial' aspects of the Emperors New Clothes"... the public values intangibles less with each new quantum leap in technology...
Such is wanton lust for lucre by these 'music merchants' sic who extoll their sleazy litigatory licentiousness when dealing with music fans/listeners that they will indeed kill the golden goose er they truly see the light.... "So It Goes"....
Slashdot Mirror
Of course Chomsky was right! To have a democratization of media there must be equal access with equal opportunity for exposure and that is certainly not a truism. Three salient points to ponder: 1. There is NO liberal media in the USA ... the closest you come is by having a relatively balanced but weak media outlet with the PBS. But it is grossly outnumbered by private interests and so under attack as to be on the point of being relatively obscure to the citizenry.
2. The wealthiest of your society have full control of the media and use it to re-enforce and validate their actions and controls. This they do while following the empirical truth of presenting bread and a variant of gladiatorial games to the public so as to distract and control.
3. The old adage of Lies, Damnable Lies and Statistics holds forth on any such perilously puerile prognostications.
For one of your media commentators to say ... Good Night and Good Luck is so apropos to the state of American Media be it digital or otherwise!
The RIAA is slowly being 'dragged and dropped' into the dust-(delete)-bin of history ... they just do not get it ... and of course the RIAA is just the foremost of the 'archival archosaurians' who want a pound of flesh - even for such a property as a song sung by a many decades deceased crooner ... The age of the 'Digital Gutenberg' arrived a long time ago in the age of the new technology ...
... and all that which was/is 'ethereal' and 'intangible' can/could be digitized will be/has been ... These are the lessons of history ... "Do not try to extoll the virtue of nor sell 'immaterial' aspects of the Emperors New Clothes" ... the public values intangibles less with each new quantum leap in technology ...
.... "So It Goes" ....
Pandora's box was opened in the "digital decade" of the last century
Such is wanton lust for lucre by these 'music merchants' sic who extoll their sleazy litigatory licentiousness when dealing with music fans/listeners that they will indeed kill the golden goose er they truly see the light