This is about as complete a presentation of the dangers of the libertarian treatment of the media in the English speaking world as you're going to get. I think if he wrote it out in a four-hundred page book it would come down to essentially the same thing. I especially agree with him about the present day BBC which has become a disgrace to journalism through, among other things, the supposed journalists being so cosy with the politicians and others they're supposed to cover, one of the things that makes the corporate American media - including NPR and PBS probably as close to the BBC as we get - such a whore house.
"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it." Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010 LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
I Love This Guy, His Commentary Is Frequently As True For The US As It Is For The UK
This is about as complete a presentation of the dangers of the libertarian treatment of the media in the English speaking world as you're going to get. I think if he wrote it out in a four-hundred page book it would come down to essentially the same thing. I especially agree with him about the present day BBC which has become a disgrace to journalism through, among other things, the supposed journalists being so cosy with the politicians and others they're supposed to cover, one of the things that makes the corporate American media - including NPR and PBS probably as close to the BBC as we get - such a whore house.
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