Unregulated corporations have a tendency to become monsters.
Corporate owned media is generally pretty lame, especially concerning
political-economic coverage. What's best for the people is usually
against the best interests of a megacorp. That's why I try to spread
a little sanity everywhere I go.

The last thing the current administration wants is a healthy and
diverse media landscape. To that extent my OT postings are less OT
than they may first appear.

Ability to listen to shortwave radio is one of the things
totalitarians restrict.

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:54:59 -0800, running dogg wrote:

Stinger wrote:


"running dogg" wrote in message
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I like to listen to shortwave to balance out the "opinion news" of
corporate owned American media.

Oh yes, if it has ANYTHING to do with a "corporation," then it's
automatically bad, isn't it?

Not necessarily. The corporate entity isn't automatically "bad", just
like any other thing isn't bad or good, it's just a vehicle. There are
many small corporations out there, and many medium sized ones, that
focus on keeping their customers happy and don't try to force their
hands. But anything can get too big and too powerful, and when something
or somebody gets too powerful they tend to try to bend everybody to
their will and not see anything wrong with trying to force the hand of
their customers. It is this phenomoenon of something that is so big and
powerful that is has the power to force the will of millions of people
to go along with its wishes that liberals are against, not
"corporations" per se.

The main reason lefties don't like corporations is that they are a big part
of the capitalist system, which is (of course) what they REALLY dislike.

Some do. I don't. Capitalism as originally concieved had many sellers
and many buyers competing freely. But when there are too few sellers or
too few buyers or both the market gets distorted and one or a handful of
sellers or buyers has the power to force the other side to do what it
wants, often against its will. That's not competition, which is the
essence of capitalism (not corporations). When there are too few sellers
AND buyers then you get what some call "sweetheart deals". These can be
fine if it doesn't entail bending other third parties to the will of the
sweetheart deal. But if there are third parties involved, the sweetheart
deal usually goes sour. The no bid contracts given to Halliburton by the
feds are one such sweetheart deal that forced millions into situations
they didn't agree with.


And as far as media is concerned, of course those losers would LOVE to go
back to the days of three major news outlets controlling all the news. Back
then, the only debate you'd hear was liberal Democrats debating moderate
Democrats.

Unlike today, when the only debate you hear is far right Republicans
"debating" moderate right Republicans. Same devil, different cloak. Same
bad situation.




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