Slut-ocracy: the US Policital & Media interests that prostrate themselves at the Corportacracys‘ feet for access, job security, & profit.
As a citizen of the US of A, I care deeply about this relatively new experiment in self-government we call Democracy.
Unfortunately, we’ve strayed so far from the founders’ ideals that our current ‘pay-for-play’ government would be regarded by them as the antithesis of Democracy. Call it ‘Democrazy.’
Things couldn’t have gotten this way without:
- a Fourth Estate (ie, the mainstream media) so desperate for profit, approval, and access they’ll report nearly anything the government asks (including lies to drum up war support).
- a legalized system of bribery known as lobbying, in which representatives represent corporations first.
More than ever, the purpose of mainstream media is to mobilize public support for, and ignore harmful truths about the corporate interests that dominate the government (and whose interests often intersect). Examples include:
- how NY Times shills Judith Miller & Mat Cooper started a war with WMD lies
- the self-serving, massive corporate welfare for the telecom sector.
- massive election fraud enabled by voting machine hackery.
As an example of how effective government-0riginated, media-amplified propaganda is, 70% of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks.
The first step in fighting this assault on the truth is to understand how mainstream media outlets omit, misinform, and distort important news, thereby manufacturing consent for important issues.
I’ve found the sites/organizations below to illuminate the manufacture of this consent, and provide actual facts.
There are some that would call them ‘liberal,’ which lately has become a euphemism for ‘truth.’
- MediaMatters.org read them daily
- Huffinton Post; read them daily
- FAIR, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting; subscribe now to their newsletter
- Black Box Voting; read about massive voter fraud
- Project Censored; read the annual list of the 25 most under-reported stories
- The Center For Public Integrity; subscribe
- Sunshine Review; government transparency info
- The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, a book by Greg Palast, an American reporter so disgusted by the US Media,
he reports for The Guardian in London. - Into The Buzzsaw, a collection of reporters’ accounts of the spiking of important stories.
And for truth-based satire, especially of the political & media slut-ocracy, nothing beats
The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, 11 – 12 nightly.
They’re on too late for you? then record them for later viewing (Digital TV makes it simple these days).
They all deserve our patronage and support.
Get informed.