There’s Nothing Mainstream About The Corporate Media
Harvey Wasserman of the Columbus-based Free Press brings up an oft-overlooked but succinct and essential point with this piece.
As we stumble toward another presidential election, it’s never been more clear that our political process is being warped by a corporate stranglehold on the free flow of information. Amidst a virtual blackout of coverage of a horrific war, a global ecological crisis and an advancing economic collapse, what passes for the mass media is itself in collapse. What’s left of our democracy teeters on the brink.
The culprit, in the parlance of the day, has been the “Mainstream Media,” or MSM. But that’s [the] wrong name for it. Today’s mass media is Corporate, not Mainstream, and the distinction is critical. Calling the Corporate Media (CM) “mainstream” implies that it speaks for mid-road opinion, and it absolutely does not.
There is more than enough body of statistically factual evidence available to show that there is a discernible mainstream of opinion in this country and that what passes as ‘mainstream media’ is in fact reflecting viewpoints and agendas to the very far right of it.
