Thursday, January 24, 2013

What are we going to do about the media?

Ace writes that fusion has occurred. The media and government have fully and seamlessly fused their powers. One of Ace's commenters wrote

The true source of Obama's power is completely overlooked (or willfully ignored) by the GOP, perhaps because it is too terrifying to contemplate, too awesome to engage: that he has completely removed an investigative and anti-authoritarian media (in Mencken's famous adage, one committed in part "to afflicting the comfortable") from the political dynamic. Obama operates with the most massive propaganda arm ever been seen in modern history. He is essentially invulnerable. At no point did Romney/Ryan come close to addressing this sick truth so dangerous to our society and freedoms. Nor do any other Republicans. Breitbart alone found expression for his moral outrage and developed a plan of counter-attack. Since he died, however, the game has gone back to carping and chronicling "media bias." We need a battle plan.

Read more here: http://minx.cc/?post=336869

Update: Bill Whittle, Steve Green, and Scott Ott agree with Ace:

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