However, it became apparent almost immediately that Beck's thirst for "truth" at FNC was but a clever rouse. Beck was just playing the old snake oil salesman routine. He is a drama queen willing to do anything to capitalize on sensationalist journalism. He saw an anti-government pulse forming in the country, as well as the popularity of conspiracy theory genres in film with the recent releases of mega hits such as National Treasure and Dan Brown's DaVinci Code films. I thought the purchase of Glenn Beck's soul and the way the FNC agents "turned" him into an "asset" as CIA folks would say, was an isolated incident. But then FNC started to buy more souls. Before I knew it other rogue media personas such as Tucker Carlson,Don Imus, Sarah Palin, Lou Dobbs, signed on to the FNC crime family. Then the unthinkable happened-John Stossel signed on. Even his libertarian soul was bought off by Murdoch. Make no mistake about it, this was all planned by the power elites to shut up all oposition and anti-establishment viewpoints.
What is more disturbing is how Glenn Speck's rise to fame occured at the same time the Tea Party movement was gaining mass followers and media attention. Beck grappled on to this movement. It is clear now, from a marketing perspective, that Beck was payed by Murdoch to became the poster boy for the movement. He succesfuly achieved this. While this is not add for corpate machines to take over movements to make money, what is odd is how the Tea Party movenent began to change radicaly after Beck and Fox News took it over.
No comments:
Post a Comment