The Corporate Media
In chart form, your corporate media at work in the 2008 Canadian Federal election:
Here's how the people voted (click to enlarge):
And here's how the media voted:
Over 60% of Canadians voted for the Liberals, NDP, Bloc or Greens and yet, in the entire country, there were only 2 daily newspapers (with any sort of circulation), The Toronto Star, and Le Devoir, that were in alignment with this overwhelming majority of Canadians voters.
I know this is obvious to anyone who pays attention, but I think putting it in chart form makes it extra clear that the media might just be a little out of touch with, and further right than, the population at large. Who could have guessed that wealthy corporate types might be more right wing than average Canadians?
Here's how the people voted (click to enlarge):
And here's how the media voted:
Over 60% of Canadians voted for the Liberals, NDP, Bloc or Greens and yet, in the entire country, there were only 2 daily newspapers (with any sort of circulation), The Toronto Star, and Le Devoir, that were in alignment with this overwhelming majority of Canadians voters.
I know this is obvious to anyone who pays attention, but I think putting it in chart form makes it extra clear that the media might just be a little out of touch with, and further right than, the population at large. Who could have guessed that wealthy corporate types might be more right wing than average Canadians?
Labels: media bias, media failure, right wing noise machine
posted by Declan at
Monday, February 21, 2011
2 Comments:
Another complaint from a wealthy banker about the dominance of "the rich". The conflict we mostly see is between two factions of rich corporate types, each attacking the other as "elitist" "& c.
That newspaper editorialists favour one over the other is interesting just because it might have been otherwise and they still s voice of rich people. And not all columinists & c may have the same loyalties as the official editorial.
The clash of two factions, though, is a situation often argued to be good for the not-so-rich, who are, it is argued able to play you/us off against each other, like the Liegois.
Best Wishes,
Alan
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Anonymous, at 5:31 PM
"The conflict we mostly see is between two factions of rich corporate types, each attacking the other as "elitist""
Yes, what I'm saying is that the media does not represent the population as a whole. Although I don't see much conflict in the media, just the Star in the middle, and everyone else on the right.
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Declan, at 6:02 PM
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