We then move into the second segment entitled: “Communication & Disinformation & Obama’s Fight.” Yesterday we carried an article in The Neoliberal Post entitled: “Communication is to make Popular what was the Monopoly,” and we discussed this on our podcast earlier today adding some more narrative to the conversation. We begin to delve into this issue by asking the rhetorical question: Who controls the narratives in the twenty-first century that has seen the decentralization of communication and control of information? Thanks to social and alternative media. Therefore, no one really has control, what we have is a plethora of perspectives, staples of information for us to access and analyze, information that was once reserved. This is necessary as it helps to realize the goal of Communication; to make popular what was the monopoly, and Man has always challenged or obstructed access to information to increase, maintain or establish power or hold over a society or a people. However, Social Media challenges and is an affront to this power, even as it helps communication realizes it aims of making popular what was or is the monopoly. The drive to regulate information must be approached with a level of suspicion and scrutiny because of the rational and so-called pure intentions of this regulatory effort to manage news calling it a corrective means of dispelling misinformation or disinformation or crazy news.
However, the strategy to do so would suggest that Americans aren’t individuals with brains who can filter and analyze information and make decisions for themselves based on the news that they have received or based on external stimuli. The problem is that news has become a political and divisive issue and the fact that social media helps to decentralize control of information, thereby providing greater access and several more diverse perspectives of the news, means that no one or two groups can control. Further if you have money, then you can control the narrative and when you look at elections and politics in an America, one cannot rely on major news sources as their news is riddled in political ideology and a spin of the news that satisfies their big money backers. Fox, CNN and MSNBC are prime examples of news outlets that are not innocent of the crime of monopolizing the news for its cronies so as to extend their supporters control or to create, establish or maintain power or a particular political dynamic. So Social media poses problems for these major news outlets.
This is a follow up to Yesterday’s news on “Communication is to make popular what was the Monopoly, in The Neoliberal Post via https://renaldocmckenzie.com and an audio broadcast was submitted on this news topic earlier in the Neoliberal Round Podcast available via https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal and is featured in The Neoliberal.
The Neoliberal Round Episode 32: Breaking News and Obama’s Fight via Spotify:
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