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Anyone who believes that the US media is liberal has been brainwashed by the corporatocracy and can’t possibly think their way out of a paper bag. The US media brings us the “news” the way corporations want us to hear it because all US media is owned by giant corporations. Truth is the enemy of the corporatocracy.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State," Joseph Goebbels.

“State” in the case of the US is the corporatocracy.  US Media as the mouth piece of the corporatocracy seems so obvious that I really don’t have much to say about the media except just ignore it. Use the internet to access news sources outside of the US to help you get some perspective on reality. 

If you insist on watching US news, learn to think critically to what is being said and why the stories are limited in scope. The corporations know that they keep you so busy in your job that you have no life and no time to listen to in-depth reporting. So, “news” is brought to you in short sound bites that portray the world the way the corporatocracy wants you to view it. 
If you want “in-depth” reporting the corporatocracy has jammed the radio airwaves (since they own them) with talk-shows that expound the beauty and glory of living under corporate domination. Talk-radio expounds the virtues of giving up your political representation to your corporate lords. Your corporate lords know what is best for you. And talk-radio denounces the corporatocracy’s favorite scapegoat: liberals. Talk-radio follows the advice of Joseph Goebbels.

“Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists [liberals] for it,” Joseph Goebbels. 

Why would anyone want to live in a society where the few people who own corporations get all the benefits and wield all the power?  Here is the corporatocracy structure that we have been brainwashed into accepting as the best society in the history of the world:

• Our represented officials, the people’s voice, have given up their power to the “private sector” (corporations).
• As a result: Our lives, our fates, lie in the hands of corporations, a place where we have no say, no vote, no voice, no rights whatsoever.  Why would we want to silence our own voices and take away our rights?
• Think of all the money the top corporations in the US make: During hurricane Katrina Exxon “earned” $100 billion in revenue in one quarter: all that money into the hands of a just a few corporate elites. Think what we the people could do with funds like that if went to the government instead of to the private sector. Think of all the programs that could be funded: schools, social security, Medicare, healthcare in general! But, no, all big income opportunities in our society go to a few select people who own corporations.
• We have no say in how a corporation spends its money, but if those same profits went to the government instead of the rich elite, we the people would have a vote, a say in how the funds were used.
• To prevent us from seeing these obvious facts corporations use their major marketing tool, the media, to tell us that we the people (the government) would just squander the money if it was in our hands. We would spend the money on frivolous things like healthcare and education. Therefore, it is better to just let them get rich and fat off of our sweat and toil and spend the money on luxury items for themselves. After-all, they “earned it”, it was your effort that earned it for them, but if you complain about your 2% raise they’ll just “let you go”. Nothing personal, it’s just business.
• Those of us that work for the corporations can be let go at a moments notice, cut-off from our livelihood with no say in the matter whatsoever. Again we have no voice. And they tell us, “It’s nothing personal, it’s just business. Get over it.” We all have accepted the corporatocracy’s message that it is perfectly natural to give up our voice. The cry at the US Revolution was the unfairness of “taxation without representation”. Corporations have bamboozled us into giving away our representation. What action can you take if you don’t like the price of gas? You can’t complain to your congressperson because he or she is not a member of the oil company. Oil prices are determined by an oil corporation not by government. The person who represents you in congress has no say within the oil company. You have no representation in a corporation. Sure you can stop buying gas and plastics and food that is produced by gas-powered machinery, but wouldn’t it be a lot better and more powerful to have direct representation in the entity? An entity like oh say, government?   
• And it gets worse: the CEO of a company, such as a big oil company, is powerless to stop prices from going up even if he wants to, because a corporation is legally bound to put its bottom line above all other concerns.

So the bottom line is that an individual in a corporatocracy has no rights. Why would if given a choice between a structure that gives you a voice and one that gives you no voice, choose the structure that gives you no voice? The media is not the voice of the people it is the voice of the corporatocracy: don’t listen to it!        

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