InterimTom: How to trust a journalistic culture that fails to question why corporations, which are essentially wealth accumulation mechanisms, are granted human status in the United States.
Well honey, see, they are part of the corporation. There is no free press. The media got bought, sold and traded like so many pork bellies, and not half as good a market. Which is why, to switch metaphors, the news is so much applesauce. And not even the interesting kind with lumps in it. Thank you CNN, I don’t know what we’d do without the 24-hour news cycle. Have room for a sane thought?
Nothing new will ever happen. Ain’t possible. Oh they hunger for events, another 9-11 but not so bad, otherwise the media are somewhat screwed. I mean, what can happen in twenty-four hours? If nothing much does? Which is why Michelle Obama’s cute shoe of the day is news. As is any sign of human flaw in any person with any measure of celebrity. Did I mention I hate this? I was going to say this culture, but why sully the word.
That is a pithy and scary idea, “granted human status,” and following your link I find it’s not just a bad dream.
Proponents of corporate personhood believe that corporations, as representatives of their shareholders, were intended by the founders and framers to enjoy many, if not all, of the same rights as natural persons, for example, the right against self-incrimination, right to privacy and the right to lobby the government.
Who’d a thunk it. Proponents … Say, that wouldn’t have anything to do with money, would it?
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This is what I see: of course corporate media are enmeshed in corporate networks that are like blood vessels in some giant nobodaddy rising from Earth to suck down the blood of the sun.
I’m interested in how we humans resist and survive. One way is to have the corporations eat each other. I mean, look at my example of the Internet economy, which right now is entirely lopsided: The pipes get all the money, the content creators, none. Why don’t the content corpses turn on their predatory Pipers and eat them back?
News organizations are supposed to notice things like this, and be curious about them, and ask questions, and acquire evidence to construct a solid understanding.
Have they? This is their own economic survival in the balance, and they’ve failed to even pose the question. I am trying to pose the question, whether it’s the right question or not I can’t yet say. But I have yet to hear what’s wrong with it.
There’s nothing per se wrong with it, it simply may be an ideal that no longer exists. And, as I say, a capability that was compromised from the get-go.
Thanks for posing such an interesting question.