The electronic broadcast media are the crucial tool by which the American plutocracy maintains control of the US Government. Since the 1950s, American elections have been won by expensive TV advertising campaigns. The susceptibility of the public to TV propaganda means that almost any well funded politician can be elected if master propaganda technicians are hired to craft a TV campaign. The plutocracy leaves nothing to chance because it pays for expensive campaigns for both political parties. The corporation-controlled "opinion makers" of the news networks act to increase the electability of plutocracy-backed candidates. Grassroots fund raising can seldom compete with the money generated by corporations and their favorable TV coverage. Even if a grassroots candidate is elected, he or she will be vulnerable to the sniping of media commentators in the pay of the plutocracy.
If the American plutocracy's grip on our government is to be broken, the power of mainstream commercial TV and radio media must be neutralized. This diary proposes some methods for attacking MSM radio and TV. The key tactic is de-legitimizing plutocratic electronic media. If the audience of a media outlet is lost, then control of that outlet becomes useless.
A campaign to de-legitimize MSM broadcast media must have two goals:
- To document the close control exercised by plutocratic interests over their media outlets, thus impeaching their claims of "objectivity." This can be accomplished throught the following means.
- Documenting financial ties between the plutocracy and media organizations and personalities.
- Conducting and publicizing analyses of "news" coverage that confirm plutocratic bias.
- Collecting and disseminating testimony from current and former employees of media organizations confirming plutocratic influence.
- To conduct formal campaigns of media blacklisting and boycotting. Freedom of speech is a bedrock principle of American society, so we must never deny any media organization the right to operate. We can, however, persuade large numbers of citizens to shut out the voices of plutocratic media. This can be done by:
- Establishing a P-rating for MSM organization that function as outlets for plutocratic propaganda (e.g. FOX News)
- Banning references to P-rated MSM coverage on Internet forums. This de-referencing is a powerful tool that has not been utilized because progressive critics of plutocratic media do not recognize that ANY public discussion of these entities legitimizes them.
- Encouraging economic boycotts of P-rated media, by both advertisers and viewers
It will take many years, and a determined effort, but the de-legitimizing of plutocratic broadcast media will be a key advance in the struggle to restore control of the US government to the people of our nation. The MSM broadcast media fear nothing more than irrelevance. Our challenge is to render them irrelevant.