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frankly i am surprised that folk are just finding out about the conservative media apparatus, its top-down structure, etc. i assumed, given that this apparatus has developed over the past 20 years, its outlines have been quite public, and its effects obvious, that there would be little question about the matter. the "left" in fact has nothing comparable to it--there are moves afoot to respond in kind--but the situation remains assymetrical.
if you want to market an ideology to a pliant public--particularly an empty ideology on the conservative model---then your strongest weapon is repetition---repeat the same message early and often---but repetition is expensive--the advantage that the right enjoys, with its deep-pocket donors offering unearmarked funds to think tanks etc--in the theater of repetition is enormous.
it would be nice to find, once, maybe, someone from the right not responding to statements of fact concerning the apparatus that shapes and modualtes their politics, that the same thing takes place everywhere. that is simply false. the american conservative media apparatus is at once a particular, specialized, foul and remarkable thing. it certainly functions to keep the troops in line and to spare them the problems of having the think too much for themselves.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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