Verbiage Wars
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From just watching the weather to see if the dog park is dry, to wanting to see if there are any wrecks between your home and work, or just a trip to Target. We are subjected to the “Verbiage Wars.” You can feel the funnel around you if you are paying attention. Because you are being funneled into someone’s grasp, sometimes literally, by just watching anything that is owned by gigantic corporations. At one time they were there to present information, sell anything they could, and draw as many to their programming so they could charge more. Pretty simple actually. As the saying went “The Beverly Hillbillies paid for the news, which was delivered by law as a service.” But that was before the Telecommunications Act of 1994. The net effect of which was “Market Consolidation” and “Infotainment.” And sadly the creation of “Corporate News.”
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We now live in a world dominated by corporate everything. They, corporations are given the same rights as humans, in fact their talking heads may be the robots of our time, the androids that supposedly look human but inside they reflect the machinery and ideology of the corporations. . These corporate robots reflect their ownership, not the ideals of Walter Cronkite ort Huntley-Brinkley Edward R. Murrow. Where in the days of public service, it was a service to the nation. In these days of ideological opportunity, it is a reason to distort facts, allow the right lies, and focus on the right ideological opponent. Because that is the real power of the media and its corporate-ownership. To be able to focus every platform on something they seek to use or destroy, Different versions of the same thing, repeated into infinity, by just the right talking head, in just the right voice working to solicit just the right emotional response. Or as I call it “The Verbiage Wars.”
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Real journalists are starving, yet Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson are multi-millionaires. That is the real and enduring tragedy here. If I could I would fund all of these real journalists myself because of the amazing work they do. But I can’t afford anything and those that can, just want to shut them up. Truth has become something corporate owned, at least their version. Logic fits the needs of their corporate masters and if that doesn’t work for you, then just starve.
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What is lost in all of this is the truth, as in reality. There is plenty of message, of propaganda, of ignorance, and arrogant stupidity. All to benefit the owners of the news, the owners of the corporate truth, those that see themselves as all that counts. NO NATION CAN WITHSTAND THE PRESSURES OF AN INTERNAL PROPAGANDA MACHINE, VESTED IN PERCEPTION CONTROL AND MANIPULATING THE TRUTH! We stand on the precipice of disaster. A disaster built by those that see humanity as a toy, or a tool, perhaps a plaything.
RC Romine
