The enemy within.

Editor,

Leaving aside the egregious abuses intrinsic to monopoly capital, consolidation of electronic sources of information into fewer and fewer hands means millions of voters can be more easily manipulated with bad information and disinformation, and fewer voices with more limited reach are able to disabuse those viewers of the half-truths they are being fed .

Further, as the internet becomes the most widespread can-and-wire information lifeline for information-starved Americans, this medium is falling more and more precariously under the control of precisely those economic forces -- giant multinational corporations -- who pose the greatest and and most dangerous threat to American democracy.

A cursory reading of the comments here, as thoughtful and well-intentioned as they are, shows how few Americans feel imperiled by corporations' control over what consumers know and the frames in terms of which they think.

re: "Comcast Gets NBC From G.E. in Deal That Reshapes TV" (12/4/2009)