Should Alex Jones replace Piers Morgan and reform CNN from within?

**bradlee180** · 02-25-2014 03:53 PM

piers morgan is a buffoon, interviewing people and doesn't even know what he's talking about. Very little knowledge of the subject matter that he's expounding his opinions on.

Alex Jones is kind of a paranoid nutbar though he's informative, but I quickly grow weary of him too and his cult of fear propagation. But at least you learn some things from him... (which one should try to verify rather than believing right away.)

The real problem with mass media in our capitalist world is that a handful of corporations, about 6 of them, literally own all the media, channels, newspapers, new sites, etc, you name it.
With a corporate-owned media, and with many corporations having interests in environmentally-damaging, high-profit industries like tar-sands, rare earths mining, lumbering, deep-sea oil drilling, the mass media is now merely a corporate tool to control and misinform people. It's all propaganda.
There is no freedom of the press anymore except for some small independent media.
There are no longer journalistic ethics.

There's no longer right and wrong, just what makes money and what one can get away with.

**Gandalf** · 02-25-2014 04:23 PM

People laugh at Alex Jones, but he is on our side. He froths at the mouth, he gets silly, and that is because he admits he is not smart. He is not pretending to be Chomsky. However, like Chomsky he is on our side on most of these issues. The elite are on none of our sides, the media has left us by the wayside.

Alex Jones is doing something good and I don't think he would ever sell out. CNN sold out with the people they do ads for, by constantly telling us about the stock market and who to buy cars from.

Real news should be telling the truth about the Fed, about the financial terrorism being carried out by HSBC and only a slap on the wrist. This bank in particular is a perpetual criminal and a tiny slap on the wrist is enough as 'We don't want to hurt the global economy'. This is now legal mafia.

El Kabong · 02-25-2014 04:30 PM

Chomsky is a twat

Alex Jones IS smart, which is why when he is pressed on information he consistently switches subjects. His views are more than a bit odd, but the whole "I just want to ask questions" shtick is something the media actually USED to do. Jones just fucks it up by being way too conspiracy oriented

**Gandalf** · 02-25-2014 04:46 PM

Why is Chomsky a twat?. When you comment on the now, then you will underestimate things sometimes. Chomsky is only human. Hitchens a twat, sure. Dershowitz a twat, sure. Chomsky is the smartest of them all. The reason he is is because he is the most consistent and is obviously most difficult to catchout.

Jones, can be taken to task because he gets silly. Chomsky doesn't get silly. One is an entertainer and the other is not an entertainer. That is the key difference. Chomsky doesn't pose.

El Kabong · 02-25-2014 05:03 PM

Chomsky is a professor of LINGUISTICS...he knows fuck all about politics, economics, or anything else. To sidle up to him and just take his word on EVERYTHING is idiotic but go right ahead, be my guest.

**Gandalf** · 02-25-2014 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by El Kabong

Chomsky is a professor of LINGUISTICS...he knows fuck all about politics, economics, or anything else. To sidle up to him and just take his word on EVERYTHING is idiotic but go right ahead, be my guest.

Don't be so ignorant Lyle.

Chomsky has taught us a lot of in terms of explaining how we use languge. Let's not pretend that politics or economics are somehow noble fields that can tell us anything more than the casual observer. The are fraudualent subjects and I will say that having studied one of them. Chomsky is smarter than the casual observer and shows how futile those fields are. They are infinitely less than rocket science.