By David Podvin
Conservatives insist that the major problem with American politics is the bias of the liberal mainstream media, but the liberal mainstream media is a childish myth, not unlike unicorns or leprechauns or William Bennett’s virtue. The real problem is that democracy becomes a farce when votes are cast based on corporate propaganda, and in a nation where a network anchorman recently was fired for telling the truth about his employer’s amoral political benefactor, corporate propaganda is the coin of the realm.
As George Soros and other wealthy Democrats analyze the best ways to subsidize the improvement of the American political system, they should realize that nothing would improve this country more than having a powerful liberal media to counteract the reportorial charlatans of the Fortune 500. If journalists were allowed to expose the Republican Party’s blatant criminality, the conservative movement would quickly be discredited and disempowered. As a result, there would be no wars of conquest resulting in massive loss of innocent human life. The Treasury would not be looted for the benefit of multinational conglomerates. Federal judgeships would not be reserved for segregationists and theocrats. The environment would not be used as an industrial septic tank…
Since the mainstream media is irredeemably corrupt, liberals need to have their own communications infrastructure. The dominant medium in the
The liberal network must also have a division that produces drama and comedy to proselytize the progressive viewpoint. One of the most popular television programs of the 1980s was The Lou Grant Show. Starring Edward Asner, the series was a brilliant combination of entertainment and information, with storylines that examined the flaws of American society while sparing no sacred cows. The Reagan Administration felt threatened that the public was receptive to a show about the real world, so it demanded cancellation of the program. Despite high ratings for Lou Grant, CBS yielded to the pressure, but the experience clearly shows that there is a vast audience for liberal dramatic programming…
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(I have written a treatment for a new version of The Lou Grant Show. If you work in television and would like to see it, please let me know.--Caro)
