June 16, 2007

This morning I blogged on the powerful initial responses to a piece of open borders propaganda in the Houston Chronicle. Checking back just now, I see that precisely zero further postings were allowed on this thread for over nine hours, after which two pro-amnesty items appeared (one illiterate), two seconds apart.

There has always been something bothering me about this term. MSM isn't really reflective of the broad base of popular opinion. Overwhelmingly, MSM channels couldn't be sustained if it weren't for corporate advertising. Thus, the purpose of MSM media is ultimately doing what advertisers want-and that means delivering readers to the corporate agenda.

One alternative term that might work is "Mainline" media-in reference to the practice of injecting heroin directly into veins. MSM really is the modern equivalent of what Marx referred to as the "opiate of the masses".

One writer, unimpressed by the cucumber growers begging for cheap labor writes

You know where those poor farmers can shove those cucumbers don't ya?

This always comes up when cucumbers are mentioned--the answer is "The same place the Senate can shove S. 1348." Actually, if they can't--the cucumbers are supposed to be rotting in the fields for lack of anyone to bend over and pull them out. But it's the thought that counts.

Liz Smith writes from New York

Of course, this is beyond ridiculous.