Communication Bias
The era of mass communications in which we now live is accompanied by an illusion of enlightenment. Information is a form of power. The belief is that the more information to which you have access the better off you are. However, strictly speaking, this is not true, because while we live with the illusion of having free access to information, that is simply not true. Mass Media outlets want people to believe that the information broadcast and made available on the internet and other public resources is the Whole Story. It is not.
Since the Mass Media and publishing are businesses, which are run for profit, the information broadcast and made available through customary sources, is carefully selected. Information broadcast and published represents sources that support the status quo, that someone profits by, furthering the interests and generating profits for the information suppliers. Because communications is a business, this should be obvious. For some reason it is not obvious.
For example, major broadcast companies like CBS, NBC or ABC would not broadcast negative information about themselves to the public. CBS will never voluntarily admit that the editors they employ are biased and prejudiced in any way. On the contrary, they will advertise themselves to be fair, honest and balanced as well as serve the public welfare. HOWEVER, CBS does this only so long as it's privacy and privilege is protected. They are motivated by profits, not the public welfare. No matter how earnestly and often CBS claims to serve the public, they don't. The same can be said of NBC, ABC, FOX, or any other broadcast information organization.
NUMBERS!?
Marketing is determined by surveys, polls and Numbers. Because someone is popular and attracts viewers (attention) does not mean that someone is Honest or truthful. Popularity may be exploited for profits. But, popularity is no guarantee of truthfulness.
For example, as I write this essay, because my intention is to inform the public and persuade people to believe me, I will only cast myself in the best possible light, being as I am, an educated and honest person, endeavoring to enlighten the public. I wouldn't admit to cutting corners, or generalizing, or cheating on my taxes, or philandering, or any number of other transgressions. I wouldn't admit my own biases. I'm a heroic figure! And you're lucky to know me!
And, if I sincerely wanted to get my message out to the general public because I thought it was necessary and important, I would do my best to relate to the widest spectrum of the public and identify myself with the issues and causes most relevant to them. This is what the Mass Media broadcast companies do. And, they do that part of their jobs, very well, because the success of THEIR business depends on it. They don't have to really be honest. They only have to convince the viewers that they are honest. They succeed as long as the public believes them. However, these MASS broadcast companies generate huge amounts of revenue to keep their businesses solvent, their employees well paid, and the owners shielded from scrutiny. Mostly, they want your money. They want you to patronize their sponsors. Who also restrict the free flow of information!!!
What does the public know about the people who own the broadcast companies? What does the public know about the private business operations of these huge and influential companies? While TV journalists routinely report about the private lives and scandals of OTHER PEOPLE, the public seldom if ever hears anything about the private lives of the reporters, journalists and editors that select what everyone else sees and hears. They “fashion the news”. “News programs like 60 Minutes are not journalism. 60 Minutes is entertainment. Manufactureed drama.
The public either assumes or is lead to believe that reporters and journalists are true blue, and committed to lofty ethical values and the public welfare. But, how can that be true, if these reporters and journalists depend for their living on the oligarchic owners of broadcast companies? The reporters and journalists work for the super rich who sign their pay checks. Despite the illusion of Free Speech, these network journalists only broadcast and report to the public what their employers want to be broadcast. Not what the public actually needs to know, but, only what the Networks want the public to know.
If the TV journalists broadcast information critical of their own employers, information that cast their employers in a bad light, they would not keep their jobs! It's really this simple.
Freedom of Speech and the Free Flow of information in our society is an ILLUSION. The public is NOT being informed. The public is being groomed, conditioned and shorn like sheep, by the elitist broadcast industries. NBC is headquartered at Rockefellar Center in NYC. The Rockefellar's on numerous occasions have openly boasted about sponsoring social engineering programs like promoting Feminisn, to increase the tax base and break up the American family unity. But, this is never broadcast or discussed by TV celebrity journalists. Never. Broadcasting is NOT about people. It's about NUMBERS! Dollars and “sense”.
It makes cents, not to make sense.
If it sells its gets broadcast. If it doesn't sell or makes the Network owners look bad, it doesn't get broadcast. These are “the Numbers” often alluded to by president Trump. Yes. It really is that simple. This economic reality is probably the main reason why our society and all of Western Civilization is currently so confused. The bottom line...... money is more important than people.
Information is POWER. But only if you have complete information and only if you have the means to control and PROFIT from the information broadcast. Otherwise, you're up shit creek without a paddle, no matter, how well informed you are. There is not such thing as “settled Science”. In order to increase (or improve) Science, it must be constantly updated and revised.
A-list broadcasters like Gayle King, David Muir or Lester Holt are paid ungodly HUGE amounts of money, primarily because they are “photogenic” and can be relied upon not to deviate from the script. Not because they are dedicated investigators, which they are NOT! They are dedicated to their own careers and the security of their employers.
They are all multi millionaires. Yet, despite their elite economic status, they claim to be regular people who are concerned about the public welfare. However, should the public actually believe that multi-millionare broadcasters share the same values and contend with the same issues as the common citizen? Or, isn't it more likely that these multi millionaire broadcasters tend to indentify with and protect the lifestyle (and the privacy) of the Oligarchs, their employers, who sign the their pay checks? C'mom people. This should be obvious. Broadcasters protect themselves first.
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It is amazing that broadcasters get away with what is obviously a rigged shell game. In one breathe, with emotional expressions “TV journalists” report about the tragedies suffered by innocent victims and then without skipping a beat, pause for station identification and to sell corn flakes and panyhose to the viewers. In so doing, these A-list broadcasters effectively de-sensitize the public, blurring fact and fantasy. The network anchors are shills for run for profit businesses. They are not public servants. They are the Enemy! Ever hear of Benedict Arnold?
Such is the power and influence of TV broadcasting. TV is an illusion. NOT REALITY.
TV is a form of technology cultivated for it's hypnotic influence which is utilized not to inform or entertain the public but to sell products and “ideologies”. The result, whether intentional or not, is to befuddle and confuse people. This is what is actually happening. This is the root of our national crisis. The manipulation of information undermines the very foundation of Western Civilization.
WE, the people, must stop watching TV. Let them broadcast anything they want. It is a free country. But, if the public begins to exercise it's collective Free will and stop watching those who deceive and exploit them, there will be a renewal of Freedom and wellness in the USA. The A-List network anchors are NOT your friends despite what they tell you.. They are like sheep dogs controlling the herd.
Please take the time to listen to the attached video. It's for your benefit. Not mine.