Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Broken Media, Broken Politics

I read this today & enjoyed it.  


WHOLE ARTICLE: https://digboston.com/broken-media-broken-politics/


*** "The point is that a polity where a Charlie Baker can be incredibly popular is a broken polity.  And a news media that enables him is a broken news media.  Baker does not represent even the interest of the white middle class that keeps voting him into office, let alone the working class as a whole.  A media that was doing its job would make that patently clear.  Every hour of every day.  Yet it does the opposite.  Because it too is controlled by the same rich and powerful interests that control politics and ensure pols like Baker keep getting elected.  Whether those pols call themselves Democrats or Republicans.  So to fix politics, we have to fix the media...And the fix starts with journalists who are independent and strive to tell the truth about problems in media and the political system.  Every hour of every day.  Beyond that there's not much to say."***