[opendtv] Re: Let them eat cake (and ATSC while they're at it)
- From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:35:32 -0700
pshaw!
It used to be that nobody owned more than 7 stations in any service
throughout the United States: as of 1984. Broadcasting started out with one
owner = one station. People like Fetzer were considered outrageous because
they owned three stations; then Don Lee set up a string of stations (KGB in
San Diego, KHJ-AM and what became KNX in Los Angeles, KFRC in San Francisco,
and others up North and all along the West coast.
And, people still got most of their news from newspapers. Radio was for
music.
Until the early 1930's Associated Press -- until forced by the Supreme Court
TWICE -- to sell their services to radio stations. By definition, they were
independent stations.
John Willkie
John Willkie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 5:35 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Let them eat cake (and ATSC while they're at it)
> At 6:01 PM -0700 5/17/05, John Willkie wrote:
> >capitalism was born in the US? Kind of funny to say that, especially
when
> >comparing the United Kingdom, the home of Adam Smith and the Unseen Hand
...
> >
> >Capitalistic broadcasting was largely born in the U.S., however.
> >
>
> We have never had "Capitalistic Broadcasting" in the U.S.
>
> It has ALWAYS been an OLIGOPOLY with heavy government regulation, as
> is the case for most utilities.
>
> What we have had is the illusion of an independent media and the
> illusion that TV in the U.S. is FREE.
>
> I prefer the PRAVDA model - at least in the old Soviet Union people
> knew that TV was a government propaganda machine.
>
> The first and most important step in establishing any propaganda
> mechanism is to build TRUST, and that is exactly what happened during
> the Golden Age of Television in the U.S.
>
> There is an alternative - IGNORANCE.
>
> Haile Selassie, the King and later Dictator of Ethiopia, used
> television to elevate himself to the level of a god. His assumed name
> means: "Might of the Trinity." He put a TV in every village and went
> to Paris to produce a slick opening segment for the Ethiopian Evening
> News. Every night he would walk down out of the clouds (a chroma key)
> then sit at a desk and deliver the kool-aid. The villagers, with no
> frame of reference for the wonders of TV and media literacy drank the
> kool-aid.
>
> Regards
> Craig
>
>
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