tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post4240841230942942360..comments2024-03-27T19:00:02.499-04:00Comments on UNDERNEWS: How televison turned off politicsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-23446514385420192962016-08-29T17:26:44.718-04:002016-08-29T17:26:44.718-04:00The marriage of politics with television has meant...The marriage of politics with television has meant the triumph of fascism everywhere. One year before 1960 the entire Cuban people saw the arrival of the “rebels” from the mountains in Oriente Province. Within a year the “rebels” had disappeared, their flag was gone, and instead we had the enthronization of Stalinism under the arresting image of one handsome s.o.b recently seen slobbering before the cameras, at 90, as the curtain begins to fall upon an era of paternalistic deceit and treason. A well done story appears in Leonardo Padura’s The Man Who Loved Dogs.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08628379122862523026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-24174666046729458802016-08-28T13:04:10.902-04:002016-08-28T13:04:10.902-04:00JFK v. LBJ was not personal, it was a similar chas...JFK v. LBJ was not personal, it was a similar chasm as Adams-Jefferson, JQA-Jackson, Sumner-Douglas. This was a civil war dynamic and all the analogies to Lincoln were true, with or without TV. JFK would never get elected today as TV would disqualify him quicker than it did Gary Hart. The mistake of his election was corrected by preventing his family from ever challenging CIA-endorsed candidates again. Consent is manufactured today by Goebbels-style marination and a sprinkling of J. Edgar Hoover treachery. TV's function is not to report the news but to pretend that news is being made in the absence of a functioning government. Cronkite initiated this new era when he pronounced Oswald guilty after due process was removed by Ruby. That Trump only knows TV and not government is part of the new realism. There is no Oz. Just as there is no Congress, Court or Presidency. These are branches of a governing cartel which the media have represented for public relations since Hearst, from the anti-progressive backlash against the muckrakers that fought the first gilded age. Any complaints today from the governed are handled on a personal basis as a form of slavecatching.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com