Resistance is futile, You will be assimilated

Or at least bent roughly over the back of a limosine, gang-raped by a herd of really rich people, then forced to watch on Single-Viewpoint News as some perfectly quaffed drone describes you as the bad person in that encounter.

No, not literally. Yet.

But it might as well be.

A bit of explaination: I found this post while digging around in my old drafts. It kind of relates to a discussion I was having with Billy Bob Gisher and Holster over the restoration of the Fairness Doctrine, and even though Bush is gone, still applies today. See, it doesnt matter which side the media supports, what matters is to be sure that it doesnt support just one. The fewer owners of the media, the larger those owners are, the more the rest of us lose. Corporations dont grow larger to increase profits, they grow larger to increase power.

See, the Bush Administration, apparently sensing that it, and its criminal Party cohorts were about to be out of a job (despite the best Democratic efforts to the contrary), made sure that they will not be "out of power" for too long by ensuring that the number of voices you hear telling you what's good and what's bad in America are as few as possible.

Click on the below graphic to enlarge, look it over, then remind yourself that this is how it was before Bush and his corporate enablers came to town.
While we've all been distracted by things like War and Terrorism and Drugs and Gay Marriage, the true takeover in this country has been quietly proceeding apace as a smaller and smaller number of people take over the ways in which you get your news. Information is the one commodity which can be easily manufactured, but is difficult to distribute. And the tighter the control on that distribution, the more power it gives the distributor.
Why else do you think that newpapers, television and radio stations, which "experts" tell us are losing more readers, viewers, listeners (and presumably money) every day, still keep being sold for record amounts of money? It's not because Charles Foster Murdock, or any other of his ilk feel sorry for those old family-owned media outlets. It's because control of information is the key to control of everything else. That is always, first and foremost, the business of any secret police, and it is why no dictatorship is complete without a coerced, censored or outright crushed press.
Now that the FCC has made it okay for one or two companies to control everything you hear, read and see in your town, guess where the last bastion of freedom is in America? Yep, it's right here, on the Internet. You, dear reader, and me, and every other blogger out there.
Watch, in the next year there will be attempts, probably successful considering the enabling pussies that are the Democratic Party (or the weasley co-conspirators that are the Democratic Party - you decide), attempts to limit, legislate, and increase the liability of websites. Watch for civil lawsuits, pundit attacks and a fierce new wave of conservative blogging. I'm calling it - you'll see.


Oh, and might I add, Google isnt exactly slacking off in the media acquisition game, so it might be a good idea to have a new blog site ready and waiting somewhere, just in case.

props to Spiiderweb on the story
Props also to Truth In Our Time for the graphics.