Stephen Colbert Cancelled; Monopoly Media Again Defines Fascism Down🎵 Don't wanna be an American idiot. Don't want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mindf*ck America - Green Day, "American Idiot"
Corporate Media’s Dying in Their Self-Imposed Darkness—Let Them
We’re only 23 paid subs from 1000! Let’s reach it tonight and amplify our work!! Benefits we’ve created for those who upgrade to paid:Substack AMA each week w/ Cliff & David Shuster, video posted for paid subs Insider stories in semi-regular columns/videos, live shout-outs to paid members, pics from trips like my recent one to Italy, lottery for free merch & periodic celebrity shout-outs Ability to comment on all content and send us DMs (we are setting this set up) Support our Soundcheck Fund—create an ecosystem of independent media to save democracy Last night Stephen Colbert announced that his late night show would be ending next year at this time—and he made it clear it was not by his choice. Yes, the monopoly-media morons for whom he’s entertained tens of millions have deemed it so, and I’m sure it has nothing with how Colbert has used his brilliant timing and razor-sharp wit to disembowel Don-Don on the regular. No, not the same group of autocracy-bangers who stuffed a wad of cash in Trump’s g-string—$16 million, to be precise—to settle a ludicrous lawsuit as coherent as Rush Limbaugh. If you spoke to him today. It seems 60 Minutes decided to engage in the practice of “editing” an interview with Kamala Harris. I mean, JFC, man, what’s next!? Using b-roll? Adding in a voiceover? Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria! But that didn’t stop Paramount. Or is it CBS? Or freakin Viacom?? It’s hard to keep track these days when only SIX companies with like 8,247 divisions, partnerships and subsidiaries own 90% of what we watch, hear, attend and play. Here, just take a look and tell me this makes economic or political sense—ya know, if you like transparency, and a lack of conflicts of interest in your journalism: Awesome! How could that much conglomerated power be bad for democracy!? I mean, if you don’t care about healthcare, childcare, working conditions, price gauging, the environment..It’s almost like the head of CBS in 2016, Les Moonves, said about Trump’s election, “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” Oh, right, because he f*king did. So, yeah, you should definitely be counting on the patriotism of that ridiculous pile of corporate crap up above. They’d absolutely report honestly on something like Trump’s trashy budget bill, b/c I’m sure none of their various entities—by which I mean almost all of them—benefit. And they’d never fire Colbert for political reasons. But, wait, there’s more! (Nothing for $19.95, I promise). There was this little gem when CBS bribed….err, I mean settled with Donald Trump and his University-of-Phoenix law team. Because, let’s face it my friends, when you’re the proud owners of Sega, you get that sometimes you have to pay to play.
Round and round the circle jerk goes. And where it stops we all freakin know. See Francisco Franco. Or Augusto Pinochet. Suharto. I know we weren’t alive in the 1900s, but didn’t anyone ever read about this sh*t? Does Teddy Roosevelt ring a bell? But, alas, Teddy isn’t here, so big corporations and billionaires merge with a group of grifting, authoritarian asshats—the bestest of friends!—or the definition of fascism. Even as we’ve watched their role in the dumbing down of our public to get to a place where a criminal, traitor, adjudicated rapist, mentally-drained swamp, racist, creator of Eric and lifetime failure at everything imaginable could be President. Twice! And if you thought MTVTBSComedyCentralCBSShowtime was bad, the other five companies who control pretty much all the rest of our information are every bit as pregnant with corporate-fecal matter. There aren’t words that do justice to what a bunch of craven, cynical, greed-and-fame driven Tapper-heads they are. Here’s a list from just the past few months—journalists who’ve been pushed out b/c they told the truth—or were “mean, nasty, or unfair” as our 3rd-grade-vocabulary’d, pinhead President would say. Whether fired or they chose to leave, with all of them it was because they could no longer be honest at these intellectually-barren outhouses:
We could go on. But I think you’re seeing the pattern here. Media monopolies are capitulating and collapsing. But there is good news here too. They’re dying. They’ve lost the plot, no longer even resemble the reason they were included in the First Amendment. And guess where many of those folks I mentioned decamped? Here. Cancel your subscriptions.Turn. Them. Off.Let. Them. Die.These legacy outlets aren’t adversaries of power. They’re enablers of it. Our biggest mistake as Democrats? Still clinging to bygone institutions that have outlived their integrity and purpose, instead of creating ones we need for the moment. FDR didn’t hold onto what failed during The Depression, he created new structures. This is the right thing to do for our democracy. And it has the added benefit of making us not the protectors of a failing status quo, but on the vanguard of the kind of change people are desperately craving right now. We’ve got Substack. We’ve got YouTube. We’ve got each other. And yeah, we’ve got Blue Amp—a fighting chance to build real media resistance. I started the Soundcheck Fund to do exactly that: 💥 Want to help fund these creators? Become a paid subscriber to Blue Amp today. The old guard bent the knee to fascism. Let’s write a new playbook—and broadcast it, loud. Because if they accomplished anything in promoting, paying off and chanting paens to a fascist—for access, ratings, clicks, fame-whoring, ever-more greed—it was in showing us, sadly, that Trump was right about one thing: Monopolistic, corporate media in this country undermines democracy. That makes it, by definition, an enemy of the people. …Yo, Check This Out!THIS WEEK ON AMPED UP!Watch clips with a real life Nazi Hunter and 6th Generation Farmer so authentic, Tim Cotton has no idea what’s coming or him… You can see the rest of these interviews here!
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