A quote you see everywhere is Gandhi's line about being the change you want to see in the world. Since I'm a corny guy, I took that to heart. Here are some of the main problems with the establishment media that I want to help change:
1. They are the establishment. They don't challenge the politicians, the government or the system. They are perfectly content to help maintain the status quo.
2. They trade access for positive coverage. In order to get political officials on their shows, they treat them with kid gloves. The single largest factor in making political decisions is campaign donations, yet they almost never ask them about that or talk about it on any of their shows.
3. They do non-stop talking points, yet no one ever says anything. It's just people talking past each other in a very boring, scripted movie we've seen before.
4. They confuse neutrality with objectivity. If the Cowboys and Steelers play and the Steelers win 21-0, and you say the Cowboys and Steelers both played equally well - you have lied to your audience. You are neutral, but nowhere near objective.
So, we set out to do a political talk show where we break all of those rules. This is the beginning. We hope you join us somewhere down this road. Together, let's be the change we want to see in the media.
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And as the GOP establishment has done everything in their power to hinder the good doctor, this is one Obama voter who is looking very hard at the only 2 party Peace candidate.
I believe we can only have prosperity through Peace and I believe Dr. Paul is an honest man.
Your show should take a more open minded look at how the Paul platform may be the best for us at this point in time.
our current economic system ==> cut taxes and regulations on mega-corporations and financial sector to allow them to essentially steal with impunity, trickle-up economics.
our current political system ==> mega-corporations and mega-rich have essentially bought the politicians so they will change the laws to enable trickle-up economics.
our current media system ==> the media corps used bought politicians to influence regulators to allow massive consolidation of media outlets resulting in media mega-corps with the same moneyed self interest as the other mega-corps. The 'liberal press' is a half-myth, many young idealistic reporters are liberal, but their corporate bosses are definitely not, and squelch their voices. If they want to become successful, they have to learn to play ball protecting the status quo, and the cycle continues.
current results ==> rapidly increasing wealth & income gap between top
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Then use facts and know data to inform people.
Then get Current to have a Morning live show that is interactive, to the point and with fast pace.
So long as presenters are paid Uber Millions and their livelihood is at stake, the public is not served well.
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click on Current TV.
Hmmmm, that's familiar: For at least the last thirty years, main stream sycophantic journalism in this country has been doing much of the same thing, thanks to our ruling corporate plutocrats engaged in prosecuting and leading the patriotic cheers for foreign perpetual cold and hot wars for perpetual profits, and domestically in the war against the middle class (and especially its unions) and those un-American dissenters.
Keep it coming, Cenk...the Current TV show is excellent!