When Salon runs a piece called, “Let’s nationalize Fox News: Imagining a very different media,” know that Fox News is being thrown out as red meat for the Salon readership; writer Fred Jerome envisions a world without any corporate media, so say goodbye to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal as well as Rush Limbaugh. What will be left in their place? Jerome writes:
In a socialist society a portion of the media would be reserved for news disseminated by the democratically elected governing bodies, that is, working people elected by and for working people.
Here’s the thing, @Salon. If we did this the people would NOT have their voices heard. You’d only hear the state: http://t.co/hPAUoN75Vj
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) January 18, 2014
This is nonsense, @Salon and I can’t believe even you guys would promote this person’s book. http://t.co/hPAUoN75Vj
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) January 18, 2014
Because if we nationalized the media even you wouldn’t exist, @Salon. That’s what state run media does.
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) January 18, 2014
Nationalizing media is wrong & you’ll only get one POV, @Salon.
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) January 18, 2014
That’s where smaller, labor union-run media would pick up the rest of the story via social justice committees.
But state ownership is not the only way media can represent the interests of working people, to speak with or through their voices. In most cases, the media would be owned and operated by working-class organizations—labor unions, neighborhood associations, and cultural centers.
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Discussions, debates, even battles will continue, and social justice committees will be elected by the union membership to look into complaints and to dig up and root out capitalist, racist, and sexist weeds that continue to grow.
Social justice committees in each workplace and community will have no shortage of complaints to consider—and the media will have no shortage of stories to investigate.
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Once those weeds have been rooted out, you’ll wonder why you ever needed another point of view to consider.
@Salon in your world I will make sure "social justice committee" gives u a well-deserved enema. Why? Well, just because. See how that works?
— Lowell George Washington (@deanriehm) January 18, 2014
Shorter @Salon: If you can't beat them, legislate them into not being able to kick the crap out of you anymore.
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) January 18, 2014
And if liberals truly believed in a much more tolerant and free world then then their reaction to @salon would be an emphatic no.
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) January 18, 2014
Hey again @Salon. Nationalizing the news is a horrendous idea — just look at how Russia Today has ignored and spun anti-gay laws in Russia.
— John Parry (@johnparryv) January 18, 2014
https://twitter.com/amylutz4/status/424596873244995584
https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/424597039830147072
What if Salon goes first.
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/424613335493914624
https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/424613750268641280
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