Establishment Media

Mainstream media is corporate media is establishment media. Power serves power. It’s difficult trying to speak truth to power when one is part of the power structure. The following video is an inside view of how mainstream media works.  

Truth About King’s Muslim Hearings – Cenk Uygur on MSNBC

That is the most inspiring speech I’ve heard in a long while. It’s nice to know that some people still believe in the American Dream and are willing to passionately defend it against those who are trying to destroy it.

MSNBC w/ Cenk: Reich – Middle Class & Wages

This video reminded me of why it doesn’t help the economy to give tax cuts to the rich and generally increase the wealth of rich while leaving behind everyone who isn’t part of the ruling elite. From just an economic perspective, there are three problems: 1) Increasing the wealth of the wealthy doesn’t necessarily increase [...]

MSNBC w/ Cenk: Fiery Debate On Social Security

This is the best interview I’ve seen in a long time. I really dislike yelling, but sadly politicians like this will always lie unless the truth is forced out of them. Cenk Uygur is one of the few people in the mainstream media who will ask the hard questions and demand real answers. And Cenk’s [...]

Toward A Truly Free Market w/ Author John Medaille

How can rightwingers (whether libertarians, objectivists, or social conservatives) defend local small businesses like mom & pop stores while simultaneously defending transnational big businesses like Wal-Mart? It’s interesting that Medaille describes the internal functioning of a monopolistic corporation as being like a socialist state in that they decrease competition & having very controlled planning. Many [...]

Cost of War

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are [...]

Disturbing Study Highlights Racism

http://www.stanford.edu/~lstein/visiblehand/

Shep Smith vs Bill O’Reilly

I have a hard time feeling outraged at or even caring about all the stupidity in politics in the media. The Sherrod incident is so predictable that it’s boring (and I’m as critical of the right-wing media as I am of the Obama administration). Still, there is one interesting thing to note. That interesting thing [...]

Mean Bosses & Inequality

The following video shows one of the many dangers of wealth disparity. I’ve posted about wealth disparity in the past and I was recently reading the book The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (here is the official website: The Equality Trust). Here is a video by the authors: The data shows the correlation between wealth [...]

Cenk Uygur on Tax Cuts for the Rich

Cenk Uygur has been slowly breaking into the mainstream for a while. He now has his own segment on Ratigan’s show. It’s interesting that Cenk Uygur used to be a Republican. This makes obvious why he left the Republican party. The question I wonder about is: What is the motivation for Republicans being for and Democrats being against [...]