The Great Protection Racket
Posted by blogolodeon2 on August 5, 2007
Today at Yearly Kos, Chris Dodd hit big with his pitch for public financing of campaigns. Yeah, right.
It just dawned on me: Hillary Clinton has been put on the inevitabilty train by virtue of the big bucks she’s raised. And by that virtue alone. But the money isn’t important because all the advertising she will be able to buy will get her message out and persuade votes her way.
It’s important because all the advertising she will buy will boost the bottom line of the mainstream television outlets. They want that campaign advertising money, and they are happy to declare the one with all the money the frontrunner.
It’s a racket. The corporations supply the money to the candidates who funnel it to the media who disseminate the narrative that keeps us in bondage and powerless. It doesn’t matter that the commercials are mindless; the candidates don’t give a shit whether we watch the ads or not. They care about the narrative the networks will tell, and by plying the networks with all those advertising dollars, they guarantee the tone of the coverage.
You want journalism? Reportage? How quant.
