ABC Radio National

Media Report





Date/Time 15 Mar 2014 6:16:11am
The main purpose of the Western MSM propaganda apparatus is mass brainwashing. The usual capitalist priority, that overrides all other considerations, profit maximisation, is often sidelined by the absolute imperative to keep society safe for the ruling parasite caste. Hence Murdoch's long subsidisation of his principle ideological battering-ram and stand-over operation in this country, 'The Australian', whose main business, in my opinion, is plainly hatemongering against those who Rupert fears and despises, principally those who oppose ecologically suicidal and socially vicious neo-liberal capitalism, or those who criticise the Holy States of the USA and Israel (hence the current, typically villainous I would say, smear campaign against the BDS movement to support the brutalised Palestinians).
Moreover, the MSM also has another useful role in lowering the tone in society, in vulgarising, trivialising and infantilising the public. Hence the great role for exploitative, misanthropic, silly and outright banal content, as we see on the Internet, in women's magazines, in reality TV etc. A dumb,ignorant public, doped up on the soma of popular meeja and well and truly indoctrinated in mindless materialism as the raison d'etre for human existence, are just like the Bosses prefer them (just like themselves, only without the money). They are less of a threat in that morally, intellectually and spiritually obtunded state.
