Main Stream Media ? This Internet was a result of the Government of the USA
giving selected Universities money and a vague mandate to create a communication
system by hooking computers together somehow. There was no "main stream media"
without distribution systems ( created by governments ) and hig speed printing presses
and a universal system of free education K-12 for everybody living in the Western World.
Telephone lines were installed by the government to span the nation. Telephone lines
became the basis of the Internet. The routers that facilitate this conversation were invented
by two Stanford graduate students using their own money to form what we know know as CISCO.
What IS "mainstream media" ? TV ? Newspapers ? Internet ? How do we get this stuff ?
First we need to be able to read ( public education) then we need electricity and things to
access information on, like TV's and Radios. Electricity was financed by taxpayers
and the infrastructure of stringing electricty across the entire nation was another government project.
Starting in 1881. With electricty there could be light and heat and RADIO ( 1920,s)
that was main stream media. Radio, up through World War two.
TV in every home. That was after WW11. Highways, were a government project to unite the nation.
Factory produced, production line cars for every man was an industrialists idea, the model T.
This enabled the development of cars and trucks who then delivered Mail and Newspapers.
Newspapers were the only "mainstream media" until the development of Radio, and then TV.
Since the US and Canada had constitutions that protected freedom of speech ( sort of)
there has always been open criticism of Land Barons and the wealthy. Ever see the movie
"Its a Wonderful Life" made in 1946 is a sermon on the evils of big business and power.
The Magna Carta or the Great Charter of Liberties of England, later to form the basis
of the American Constitution, was written in 1215 and its purpose was to limit the power
of Kings, establishe property rights and establish a commitee of 25 Barons who could
could at any time meet and over rule the power of the King. This led to the statute of Laws.
Charles Dickens 1812-1870 wrote about the evils of the wealthy and the abuse of the poor.
The French Revolution, 1789, was inspired by the writings of Rouseau,in essays like The Rights of Man.
In other words; the "main stream" media, in whatever form it took, was always complaining
and exposing the "unaccountable elite ". You simply were not paying attention, because the WT
created in your mind the idea you were somehow isolated from both history and the rest of
humanity and existed in a safe protected place in the "organization" Reading only what you
were instructed to read. One of the favorite sayings of Witnesses is some gleeful and excited
gossip that always goes : "They ( the mysterious they ) have never come out and said THAT
before." As if some new tibit of information means things are "happening" things are really
"happening" and all that happens is, you get another day older and deeper in debt.
