The CBS merger deal illustrates everything that’s wrong with post-Reagan Revolution America. It’s not just another corporate merger: it’s a road sign on our accelerating march toward oligarchy, propaganda, and the collapse of honest media.We’ve watched one of the most important legacy broadcast plat...
The US has been an oligarchy much longer. Wild propaganda, ranging from seeing negro-communist-marijuana smokers everywhere to the nonstop justifications for invasions, coups and mass slaughters outside the US has been integral to the US at least in the past one hundred years. American media has never been honest and always been a tool of propaganda, see manufacturing consent by Herman and Chomsky.
This has been going on well before Trump and unless there is an actual revolution, it will continue after Trump.