United States of Distraction by Mickey Huff;Nolan Higdon;

Author:Mickey Huff;Nolan Higdon; [Неизв.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)

Corporate media also cannibalize the present by selling us the speculative, premediated future, framing coverage and selecting topics based on the interests of the few. While corporate media are fully capable of informing and educating the public, their mission is to generate profit for their owners and shareholders while shaping public opinion in ways that are favorable to those very interests. The programming of both Fox News and MSNBC serves to define the way corporate interests invest in distracting and indoctrinating the public. Until the economic underpinnings of their capitalist practices are meaningfully regulated or eliminated and they are made to serve in the public interest, corporate media will always be a distraction from true and informed civic engagement.

The authenticity of our social order as a democracy depends on the degree of authentic representation provided by our political, media, and education systems. As discussed earlier, over the years these interconnected systems have become increasingly commandeered by the influence of private, rather than public interests. Instead of serving the common good, politicians and media increasingly distract the population from its own collective interests in order to serve theirs. As a result of immersion in systems that represent and reflect wealth and power, people have become so deeply indoctrinated that notions of reclaiming the sovereignty of citizenship from the spectatorship of consumerism become increasingly difficult. While Trump’s time on top is limited, he has provided source code for playing our system and exploiting our vulnerabilities to run the “the greatest infomercial in political history.”443 To guard against others doing so in the future, deliberate steps must be taken to think independently of the system. In short, we have to make America think again.

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