I just cannot understand this anymore. I’ve been watching the Senate trial all day. All day, every break had talking heads discussing what had previously occurred. I’ve been watching msnbc app on my roku “smart” tv. At 11:30 pm, they went to break, and msnbc put the equivalent of the 1970’s end of day test pattern on.. No talking heads, no discussion.. Had this been a missing white girl, coverage would not have gone blank. This is, quite possibly, the most important moment in this country’s history, and the “liberal” msnbc cuts off any discussion for those of us that work 2nd shift EST? We are definitely in the upside down.. I am completely convinced we need to address the corporate structure of our “news” media. Not only do we need to address the profit driven aspect of how we are “informed” as citizens, we need to address the ability of billionaires to control, not just the media, but also, our “representatives”. The “press” is afforded protection that is being abused for profit and power, as are a large percentage of our elected representatives.
How do we hold them accountable? How do we rein in their failures to immediately shut down lies? How do we curtail their ability to continuously invite known liars, paid liars who’ve shown themselves to be wrong, always? Murdoch and Ailes have caused so much destruction worldwide, they are the poster children for eat the rich.. However, the entirety of our mass media is infected by this “both siderism”. How do we fix this? Republicans say moon is made of green cheese, Dems disagree. We live in an era where we have instant access to the entirety of human knowledge. How is the lie still getting halfway across the world before the truth has tied its shoes? Freedom of speech has always been abused by those who are willing to abuse for their own advancement in the pecking order. The authoritarians never back down. My only thought, as a first step, is there should be no such thing as a billionaire. As i typed this last sentence, drumph’s defense, on the Senate floor, just stated that “President Trump is a man of his word”! aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!