> "We are told that this is what the public wants," #AlbertCamus observed in a 1944 newspaper article on #MediaEthics. "No. This is not what the public wants. This is what the public has been taught to want... which isn't the same thing." #ScottSherman provided this quotation from the French newspaper #Combat to #RobertMcChesney

> When people consume from.. options provided, the media giants.. [say] they.. [satisfy] audience demand.. the offerings [are] imbecilic.. because the people are morons.. But.. there is no proof that.. [the] range of choices conforms to something innate to the audience.
#RobertMcChesney in #CorporateMedia and the #ThreatToDemocracy p.50
There was a Dinosaurs(?) show that dealt with the limits of TV? The crane operator went from too stupid to too activating and had to quit producing.

> #McChesney points out, "the criticism of out-of-control #technology is in large part a critique of out-of-control #commercialism. The loneliness, #alienation, and unhappiness sometimes ascribed to the #Internet are also associated with a #marketplace gone wild."
Discourse about the Internet often proceeds as if digital technology has some kind of mind or will of its own. It does not.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/digital-disconnect_b_2971464
#NormonSolomon on #RobertMcChesney #DigitalDisconnect

.. the case for commercialized communication relies upon the ideology of the infallible #marketplace.. civic religion in the United States.. the world in the 1990s.. This pro-#market argument..[is] infallible only to the extent that it is.. based on faith, not a political theory..[for] inquiry and examination.. The..[argument] often rests upon a mythological presentation of pure #competition.
#RobertMcChesney in #CorporateMedia and the #ThreatToDemocracy (997) p. 44 #OpenMediaPamphlet series

> .. when the #Internet began, and this is—it seems like ancient history now—in the ’80s and ’90s, when we first people became aware of it, it was seen largely as a non-commercial oasis. It was a place where people could go and be equal and be empowered as citizens to take on concentrated economic and political power, to battle #propaganda, and there was no #advertising, there was no #commercialism. That was off-limits.
https://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/5/digital_disconnect_robert_mcchesney_on_how
#RobertMcChesney 2013 #DigitalDisconnect