Corporate Media and the Dumbing Down of ‘America’

The most effective way in which to address the corporate-stream media is to overwhelmingly tune it out. This does not mean that we should remain totally unaware of the corporate-stream media’s propaganda. It does mean however, that on those occasions when we do read, watch, or hear the corporate media we must always keep in mind that the primary objective of the corporate media is to form [i.e. shape public opinion], not to inform opinion, which are two very different things.

Finally, we must become our own collective media – networking and sharing information with other critically thinking everyday people like ourselves. Yes! We must ‘occupy’ our own minds first and foremost. We must remember and adhere to the words of Rosa Luxemburg, when she said, “Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently…Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.”