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Does the propaganda work without profit?How hard must one work to earn $150,000,000 in one year (that's one-hundred-and-fifty-million dollars)? Are you truly naive enough to believe that the concept of "work," in the accepted sense of the word, has a place in this equation?Next time, try "I want what you have worked so hard for, handed to me for nothing"
It's a lot more to the point.
Thanks.
It amazes me how so many who are willing to defend this kind of exploitive, ruinously capitalistic excess either haven't a pot to piss in or any hope of ever earning more than $50k a year -- for which they will need to bust their asses at jobs they hate.
What motivates these right wing dupes? Vain, onanistic hope? They are like an army of marching gnomes who happily carry the lubricant for the giant who eventually will hold them down and screw them in their asses.
"What is the propaganda model and how does it work?
"The crucial structural factors derive from the fact that the dominant media are firmly imbedded in the market system.
"They are profit-seeking businesses, owned by very wealthy people (or other companies); they are funded largely by advertisers who are also profit-seeking entities, and who want their ads to appear in a supportive selling environment.
"The media are also dependent on government and major business firms as information sources, and both efficiency and political considerations, and frequently overlapping interests, cause a certain degree of solidarity to prevail among the government, major media, and other corporate businesses.
"Government and large non-media business firms are also best positioned (and sufficiently wealthy) to be able to pressure the media with threats of withdrawal of advertising or TV licenses, libel suits, and other direct and indirect modes of attack.
"The media are also constrained by the dominant ideology, which heavily featured anticommunism before and during the Cold War era, and was mobilized often to prevent the media from criticizing attacks on small states labeled communist."