In his April 28th, 2015 interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, George Stephanopoulos confirmed what I had long suspected— that the corporate media powers-that-be decide what should be news. In the exchange, Stewart asks Stephanopoulos, “Who makes the decisions to go five hours wall to wall on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner while Baltimore is having, you know, a, a violent demonstration?” Twice Stephanopoulos responds, “It comes from the top.”
This top down, billionaire-controlled media reporting becomes even more apparent with the recent headlines and news articles outlining who won the first 2016 Democratic Primary Debate. Hosted by CNN, a Time Warner subsidiary, its own polling showed Bernie Sanders winning at 81% and Hillary Clinton a far behind second place with only 13% of the vote.
CNN subsequently deleted this poll and wrote their own version of reality with a photo caption, “Clinton triumphs in Democratic debate as rivals compete to lose.” Sanders with 81% of the votes from their very own poll versus Clinton with her meager 13% doesn’t sound like a triumph to me. Does it to you?
When you peel back the curtain on this disparity, however, you see something far more sinister than the Wizard of Oz manipulating a desperate group of outsiders. You witness, instead, exactly what Bernie Sanders is fighting against— the billionaire class and their mainstream media-touting interests. After all, Time Warner has donated over half a million dollars to Hillary’s political career and since it owns CNN, the inevitable occurred. “It comes from the top,” as George Stephanopoulos might say.
“The top” wants what it has always wanted— to maintain the status quo— and they will write and tell the narrative that accomplishes this. But the people, the overwhelming majority in every poll taken about the first Democratic primary debate, are saying something else. If this were a relationship, it’d be an abusive one and the mainstream media abuser would be employing gaslighting. Gaslighting “is a form of mental abuse in which information is twisted or spun, selectively omitted to favor the abuser, or false information is presented with the intent of making victims doubt their own memory, perception, and sanity.” But this isn’t a relationship. It’s something much bigger, with much more at stake, and that’s what makes this propaganda.
Bernie’s revolution will not be televised. Not when so many mainstream media outlets are determined to propagandize what is actually occurring with his campaign and his following. Instead it will tweeted and Facebooked and blogged and discussed and the people behind it—those of us behind Bernie— will mobilize.
So join your local Bernie group, donate to his not-funded-by-PACs-or-billionaire campaign, volunteer, post and repost his message, our message every chance you get. Don’t let the mainstream media gaslight you or propagandize what we know to be true. And don’t let this great country, the world’s once best democracy, continue to degrade into an oligarchy.
Feel the Bern!
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