How to connect the dots and see through the charade. This ridiculous article was todays front page news in The Denver Post - eclipsing all other local, national and international stories. denverpost/lifestyles/ci_24337046/lakewood-high-school-wins-katy-perry-concert Yet this intense and heartbreaking disaster that has devastated tens of thousands of rural Americans and killed more than 100,000 of their animals has been completely ignored by The Denver Post: modernfarmer/2013/10/forgotten-blizzard/ Why? Political activist Douglas Manchester openly admits his recent purchase of San Diego’s largest paper is less about making money off the paper itself than using the paper to push what it calls a “pro-conservative” political agenda. It is the same reason why Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton is accurately described by Campaigns and Elections magazine as a Republican political activist and why 5280 magazine notes that politicians now must “regularly run their ideas by him and try to avoid unflattering Denver Post coverage.” In all of these examples, as in so many others, we see that as newspapers are put on the auction block by profit-focused public companies, Citizen Kanes (whose status as private owners gives them more freedom to lose money on the ventures) are buying them up because they see those papers as a way to increase their political power by stealthily embedding their ideology and political interests into the very foundation of news. Just like the Colorado Floods, the #AtlasBlizzard implicates climate change: qz/124389/everything-that-led-to-colorados-record-breaking-flood-and-why-it-will-only-get-worse/ So next time a major newspaper presents fluff to you as news, ask yourself why. The answer is what SHOULD be news.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:40:45 +0000
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