He speaks to the internet in the article.
And also - there's a signal/noise ratio that needs to be considered when talking about "alternative" news media.
is Alternet.org or moveon.org acceptable alt-news?
How about fromthewilderness.org?
They're varying degrees of tinfoil hats IMO.
While I'm opposed to large media conglomeration, the idea of everyone sending out their own ideas on news is foolish as well. noise becomes too much because frankly, half the people I know are underinformed.
Most of the abuses to workers, etc. were corrected not by the goverment but by unions.
In fact, the goverment sided with corporations against unions quite often and still do today.
One glaring example is the Pullman Strike.
Text from probably a book for third graders
"The Pullman Strike in 1894, at the Pullman plant near Chicago, the American Railroad Union (not affiliated with the AFL and led by Eugene V. Debs, a leading American socialist) struck the company's manufacturing plant and called for a boycott of the handling of Pullman's sleeping and parlor cars on the nation's railroads. Within a week, 125,000 railroad workers were engaged in a sympathy protest strike. The government swore in 3,400 special deputies; later, at the request of the railroad association, President Cleveland moved in federal troops to break the strike-despite a plea by Gov. Aitgeld of Illinois that their presence was unnecessary. Finally a sweeping federal court injunction forced an end to the sympathy strike, and many railroad workers were blacklisted. The Pullman strikers were essentially starved into submissive defeat.
The strike illustrated the increasing tendency of the government to offer moral support and military force to break strikes. The injunction, issued usually and almost automatically by compliant judges on the request of government officials or corporations, became a prime legal weapon against union organizing and action."
It's folly to expect the government to act in the interests of "the little guy". The only reason change occured was due to "the little guys" banding together to become a force equal to or greater than the corporations that were raping them.
SO, you know, vote and stuff.
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Is it's ilovebees. Bees do what? Produce buzz. That, IMO, is exceptionally clever.
He speaks to the internet in the article. And also - there's a signal/noise ratio that needs to be considered when talking about "alternative" news media. is Alternet.org or moveon.org acceptable alt-news? How about fromthewilderness.org? They're varying degrees of tinfoil hats IMO. While I'm opposed to large media conglomeration, the idea of everyone sending out their own ideas on news is foolish as well. noise becomes too much because frankly, half the people I know are underinformed.
Most of the abuses to workers, etc. were corrected not by the goverment but by unions. In fact, the goverment sided with corporations against unions quite often and still do today. One glaring example is the Pullman Strike. Text from probably a book for third graders "The Pullman Strike in 1894, at the Pullman plant near Chicago, the American Railroad Union (not affiliated with the AFL and led by Eugene V. Debs, a leading American socialist) struck the company's manufacturing plant and called for a boycott of the handling of Pullman's sleeping and parlor cars on the nation's railroads. Within a week, 125,000 railroad workers were engaged in a sympathy protest strike. The government swore in 3,400 special deputies; later, at the request of the railroad association, President Cleveland moved in federal troops to break the strike-despite a plea by Gov. Aitgeld of Illinois that their presence was unnecessary. Finally a sweeping federal court injunction forced an end to the sympathy strike, and many railroad workers were blacklisted. The Pullman strikers were essentially starved into submissive defeat. The strike illustrated the increasing tendency of the government to offer moral support and military force to break strikes. The injunction, issued usually and almost automatically by compliant judges on the request of government officials or corporations, became a prime legal weapon against union organizing and action." It's folly to expect the government to act in the interests of "the little guy". The only reason change occured was due to "the little guys" banding together to become a force equal to or greater than the corporations that were raping them. SO, you know, vote and stuff.