Monopoly Media

The United States of America is a democracy that functions off of capitalist ideology.  The large corporate news stations report mainly from the point of view of the dominant class.  However we believe that the media areable to give us balanced coveragebecause they are free and independent.   They are able to do this because they can convince us that errors happen from time to time for a number of different reasons and we buy it.  Of course errors do occur but not nearly as often as would explain the glaring outright innacuracies in the media.   A pattern you will see play out consistenly is the favoratism of  favoring management over labor, corporations over corporate critics, affluent whites over low income minorities, officialdom over protestors, the two-party monopoly over leftist third parties, privatization and free market “reforms” over public sector development, U.S. dominance of the Third World over revolutionary or populist social change, and conservative commentators and columnists over progressive or radical ones.  Media relies on bending the truth instead of breaking it.  Otherwise know as framing propoganda.  That way they can say they didn't lie. The way to successfully frame is in the packaging of the news.  How much exposure the issue recieves, where it is at: for instance on the cover of a magazine or on the 132cnd page with the horoscopes.  The headlines, photos, tags, videos or auditory toneof the article effects the framing as well.   The News is reported to us but not explained,so unless you go digging further to discover the order of how things work behind the scenes you are left thinking things happen coincidentally.  With the reccession we are led to believe the economy is just in a slump.  When it is reported thaat their are terrible labor conditions inn a country it is seldomly reported that the conditions are backed by that countries leaders or government.    We say "oh the press really screwed that up" when the fact is they did it purposefully, for this is their skill.  Once we understand that we will stop criticizing thier sloppy reporting and begin analyzing how they promote the dominant agenda so craftily.