“We are controlled by an illusion of democracy based on rigged political parties and rigged elections. … We can vote for the Conservative party to attack ‘threatening’, but in fact defenceless, Third World countries, or we can vote for the Labour party to do the same. … We can buy the Guardian that respectfully hypes the ‘threat’ as defined by ‘official sources’, or we can buy The Times that does the same. … It may be cathartic to periodically reject Tweedledum in favour of Tweedledee, but they serve the same interests and are both fierce opponents of all attempts to break their shared monopoly.”
It takes little time and effort to see that the above ‘Tweedledum/Tweedlee analysis’ of our lives is real. One need only open up the following three website homepages:
- BBC’s - http://news.bbc.co.uk/
- The Times’ - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
- Guardian’s - http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The three homepages feature the same main stories, reported in the same way:
- the British citizen who was recently executed by China;
- Yemen’s ‘terror problem’;
- Sheen, a man who murdered his wife;
- Van Morrison becoming a father at age 64;
- Iran’s arresting of activists;
- the British ship seized by pirates;
- and many others.
Why? We must ask, are the media organisations’ homepages so similar? Is it ‘natural’ for them to be so similar? If so, what are the causal forces?
I submit that they are so similar - nay, virtually identical in the most important ways - because they are all corporate media organisations, sustained by and perpetuators of the establishment, who serve and sustain the same interests, and are of the same ideology. They are part of the system which Mark Curtis calls the single-ideology totalitarian state.
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