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By the way, I haven't heard CNN or NBC mention CISA once this week. So apparently corporate media has no problem with CISA for some reason. Since congress rar
by ck2 11y ago
By the way, I haven't heard CNN or NBC mention CISA once this week.
So apparently corporate media has no problem with CISA for some reason.
Since congress rarely write their own laws and let the industry write it for them - who actually wrote CISA ? There's no way congress would know what to ask for. Did the NSA write CISA?
- merpnderp 11y agoLobbyist don't do "back room deals" for the fun of it. They do it so that there's no accountability. Democracy should have no secrets, and this is a disgrace.
- MicroBerto 11y agoWhat makes you think this is a democracy?
- laotzu 11y agoState run public education and mass media
- ionised 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
- mindslight 11y agoWhat makes you think this isn't?
- MicroBerto 11y agoThe fact that it's not
- mindslight 11y agoSo, no true Scotsman?
- MicroBerto 11y agoNo, this is AMERICA
- mindslight 11y agoOh, I think I misinferred where you were coming from. From context, I had thought you were advocating that we needed to democracy harder. On reflection it seems more likely you're espousing the viewpoint that USG hasn't been specified as a democracy, so people advocating to democracy harder are asking for nonsense. In some sense that would put us closer to agreement, but from my perspective that viewpoint clings to a prescriptive model that is clearly irrelevant at this time. Democracy has become our national religion, and the mechanics of how the celebrities obtain office isn't so important as the idea that no action is off limits to the court of public opinion, adjudicated by the media.
- tptacek 11y agoLike everyone else, CNN covered CISA aggressively when it passed the Senate in October; they even called it "historic". They're not covering it now because this is boring procedural stuff. There's no story this week. Obama has been on record all year saying he'd sign it. The one dramatic thing that could have happened --- a showdown between the House and Senate over whether the language would be closer to the (bad) PCNA bill --- didn't happen. All you're noticing is that CNN isn't covering a nonstory.
- laotzu 11y agoConsider that CNN and NBC are owned by Time Warner and Comcast.