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You seem to contradict yourself here. I guess there's no media at all then.Free speech isn't free on corporate media. Conservative piggies line up like simplistic sows at the corporate trough knowing they can advocate whatever the rich want to hear without providing any opportunity for their views to be contested. Maybe they've forgotten who owns the airwaves; you obviously have.ee speech is free speech. (Period) If you want to broadcast your opinion, buy some time and talk away.
There's basically no liberal media so the conservative agenda gets broadcasted to millions. Why no conservative media? Because big money wouldn't support it. Let's have a free and open public media.
If liberals want to get their message on the air, they can do the same thing the the conservatives do. Their problem is coming up with messengers and messages that the general public will to listen to. Your perceived sense of unfairness in the open market of broadcasting is indicative of your admission of inadequacy.
How am I contradicting myself? You think big money will support a progressive agenda? There should be news from both sides even if government funds it. What have we heard about the TransPacific Partnership? There's a blackout about this now. I know, I know, Obama is pushing it. We'll hear about his golf game or what his wife is wearing but silence about the matters that really count.
Absolutely big money will support progressive agenda. Traditionally big money / wealthy elites, are the progressives. You progressives, for some reason I have not figured out yet, like to live in a fantasy world where progressives are anti-elite anti-wealth, pro-common-man.
False. Your rheteric is pro-common-man.... but in practice, you people are the most pro-wealthy, pro-elite ideology on the planet.
It's not shock to me that as the country has moved more and more towards progressivism, that the poor have gotten poorer, and the rich richer.
Obama rsquo s new political group open to unlimited donations - Nation - The Boston Globe
Look at this article from the Boston Globe.
Organizing for Action, self proclaimed "Progressive" group.
They proposed a meeting, quarterly, between Obama, and elite business leaders, Hollywood Studio Executives, and energy investors (how much you want to bet 'alternative energy investors'), and the target was $500,000 per.
Now tell me sparky.... you think those 'progressives' are 'the common man' you claim to be for? No, those were the elite.
Then Organizing for Action decided to have a "grass-roots" meeting they called the "Founders Summit"...... entry fee? $50,000 per person. So you and your wife, being the common people, widely proclaimed to be championed by the "Progressive", can go for only a mere $100,000. I'll meet you there myself. At a taxable income of $21K last year, I join you at the summit, in.... oh.... 3 years.... if I don't eat or live off any of the money until then.
There's your 'ideology of the common folk' right there buddy. Yes, progressive have many supporters in big money.