Richard Wolff
Rough note (there may be errors):
5 corporate control all media in us. at&t, comcast, disney, fox news, viacom-cbs. 1983 – 50 corporates are there.
idea of any society is the idea of its ruling class – marx.
same do with the automobiles. there were 50 companies before. now only 2. ford and gm. same in computer, cigarette etc.
educational companies.
last 100 years we had confrontation between capitalism and socialism.
if we had free press, then they present pros and cons of both the system. but not. socialists are called upon just to disgrace them.
50 million blacks. black people owned tv station is 0.9% in us. 99.1
1900-1920 – 300 news papers are associated with socialist party.
communist party had newspaper. daily worker.
50 dominant media outlets in 1950s. now its 5.
ben davis sent to prison for being communist.
ideas of the society is the ideas of its ruling class – marx.
in us all newspaper give you same analysis. in france you get left middle right newspapers.
idea of any society is the idea of its ruling class – marx.
same do with the automobiles. there were 50 companies before. now only 2. ford and gm. same in computer, cigarette etc.
educational companies.
last 100 years we had confrontation between capitalism and socialism.
if we had free press, then they present pros and cons of both the system. but not. socialists are called upon just to disgrace them.
50 million blacks. black people owned tv station is 0.9% in us. 99.1
1900-1920 – 300 news papers are associated with socialist party.
communist party had newspaper. daily worker.
50 dominant media outlets in 1950s. now its 5.
ben davis sent to prison for being communist.
ideas of the society is the ideas of its ruling class – marx.
in us all newspaper give you same analysis. in france you get left middle right newspapers.
cnn alison cooper – debate with sanders asked why you says you are democratic socialist while no change to get elected as socialist.
i dont believe 1% owns 99% of the wealth. l dont like mom get seperated with new born baby because there no paid leave. that was nationalized tv show.
within hours sanders movement got millions of dollars from small donors. thats the power of media, they fear that.