I stumbled across this on another blog while looking for some information reconciling some worpdress plugin issues I’m sorting out. It’s not groundbreaking, but what blew me away about it is how contemporary this sounds… I suppose that the current cynicism regarding the media’s true masters isn’t exactly a new phenomenon.

Still, it would seem that not much has changed in the interceding years since 1973 - fully 25 years. Or put another way, it seems like we’ve been pretty much fucked from the beginning. Maybe I’m just naieve, but for some reason I always had this perception (or maybe just wayward nostalgia) that there was some golden age of media in which all was bright and shiny and innocent and unsullied by the manipulations and mindfuckery of our goods-shilling craplords, but the more I think about it, the more I find myself assuming that that’s simply not the truth, and suspecting something else: there has always been a marketing motive behind television.

Anyhow:

Via: Bavatuesdays