A follow-up to the followup

[solarbird]

What makes this material interesting is not routine violence against protestors - that always happens, though the grab-arrests while they're actually talking to reporters to shut them up is a little atypical; nor is it the attempted secret plans for warehousing of protest detainees. What's more interesting is the direct action against media and representatives thereof itself, and, in particular, direct action against large corporate media agents such as reporters for ABC. That's interesting.

eta: Ah, the "liberal media." (And since people are missing it: this is a link to worksafe video showing Tom Brokaw saying that the Democrats can't attack John McCain because he was a POW, which is to say, spouting a GOP propaganda line as cold hard fact.)

Comments

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

I have thoughts but come to this too late to coherently write them. And by the time I remember this and have time at the same time much time may have passed. So just saying "yes" and thanks for bringing attention to events & angles. That is all.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it you that pointed out that one of the things a tyrant does once he's established is kill off all the supporters?

[solarbird]

No; I didn't say "kill off all the supporters," nor would I. Even a dictator has to have support, so if you kill off all of it, you're fucked. No, what I said was that you need to make some examples of the people who specifically helped you get into power (as opposed to all your supporters, or the greater base of support you tend to get in such systems by taking power) to establish that they depend upon you, rather than you depending upon them.

However, I don't really see the connection to this post. The political media have not been on the side of even the token rhetorical opposition by the Democrats. There's a bit of a discussion going on about this in the previous post you can join in upon if you want. The funding of the political class always wants to be kept private; the mechanics involved in doing so are what's both new and unusually crude.