19-02-2013, 11:18 PM
The lesson of Phelan is very medium is messagey. The CIA had been planning their House in New Orleans not too long after Eric Burdon. For them the corporate nature of the media was not centralized enough.
It had to be even more centralized.
They needed to all the big media companies to not just be big and members of the club. All of their eyeballs had to hit the exact same mock ups under the same roof. It is very instructive to note VARIETIES of centralization and decentralization, even within the context of the this old 3 network, Time and Newsweek world. [yet for many who have not gone back and read daily papers from the 1960s will be shocked when they discover real liberalism as opposed to todays The Republican Wing of the Democratic Party to paraphrase some old Democrat, long ago planecrashed (verb).
Contrast this with todays internet and cable world. Not only is the cable "left" really designed to take us further right via quid pro quo manipulation, but even internet sites are considered too dangerous to be free of professional lingering, and split enders.
Critical mass sure matters. Nobody will start conversations unless they think enough people around the water cooler share the basic common denominator to initiate the conversation.
Clearly a lot of effort went into a very policed media homogeneity in Phelan-Helms House.
It had to be even more centralized.
They needed to all the big media companies to not just be big and members of the club. All of their eyeballs had to hit the exact same mock ups under the same roof. It is very instructive to note VARIETIES of centralization and decentralization, even within the context of the this old 3 network, Time and Newsweek world. [yet for many who have not gone back and read daily papers from the 1960s will be shocked when they discover real liberalism as opposed to todays The Republican Wing of the Democratic Party to paraphrase some old Democrat, long ago planecrashed (verb).
Contrast this with todays internet and cable world. Not only is the cable "left" really designed to take us further right via quid pro quo manipulation, but even internet sites are considered too dangerous to be free of professional lingering, and split enders.
Critical mass sure matters. Nobody will start conversations unless they think enough people around the water cooler share the basic common denominator to initiate the conversation.
Clearly a lot of effort went into a very policed media homogeneity in Phelan-Helms House.