no. Replace awareness with corporate sponsored subconsious complacency and/or directed populus outrage. Think about it this way: what damage can Fox News do today already, without being officially partisan/demagogue? There might be a wider impact on the media, if corporations can simply can buy airtime to spread their position on every program they like. Even if there are restrictions to how much and when they can spend on a specific issue and program, once they have their foot in the door and the money stream flowing, their power over the public discourse will be enormously increasing.

Fox News is already a succesful model of corporate merging with political influence. This SCOTUS ruling might send it into overdrive.

by eborujion on 01/22/2010 06:06:41 AM EST

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