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July 23rd, 2015 at 2:35 pm
What Chokepoint demonstrably did was give banks (notably Suntrust and BankofAmerica) the fallback justification to do what they wanted to do anyway, squeeze pawn shops and gun sellers out, because they have huge backdoor interests in the hugely profitable check-kiting (payday lending) business.
The local teevee news affiliate WFLA did a multiple segment series on some Tampa area pawn and gun businesses that had been loyal and upstanding customers of the banks for years which received divorce papers without explanation from their banks. The banks were closed-mouth with the reporters too, but the series did spur some protests and enough bad publicity to hopefully get some attention and do some harm. Googling up the series will open your eyes about this shit and the true powers and motives behind it. And good on that teevee station for pursuing much more than would be expected; WFLA Channel 8 in Tampa is an NBC affiliate, but they are far more fair and balanced, even somewhat conservative compared to most media, than their parent network might indicate.
It might be tough to pin the feds down on being behind this shit, but their dirty fingerprints are all over it, and those banks are their willing and equally dirty co-conspirators.
July 23rd, 2015 at 3:28 pm
This is what happens when the media becomes the mouthpiece for government. The thing I took away from Professor Brian Anse Patrick’s book, The National Rifle Association and the Media: The Motivating Force of Negative Coverage was his determination that the media isn’t just leftist, but it’s STATIST. As he put it:
“Previous to objective journalism, baldly partisan news media were the norm; under objectivity news became a scientific tool of social progress and management. The elite press continues also to serve this function, connecting administrators and managers not only ot the world they seek to administrate but also to other managers with whom they must coordinate their efforts. So in this sense social movement-based critiques have been correct in identifying a sort of pseudo-pluralism operating in the public forum, a pluralism that is in reality no more than an exclusive conversation between elite class subcomponents – but this over-class is administrative in outlook and purpose.
“We should not think of this way of thinking and interpreting reality as an entirely deliberate process. We are dealing here with the diffusion of a hermeneutic that accompanies an organizational and cultural style, a scientific management method of proven effectiveness, with wonderful social benefits and also terrible side effects. Journalists, like everyone else, steep in this hermeneutic throughout their education and upbringing; moreover they work in and serve organizations that arose in response to administrative needs. High-level journalists especially have survived a rigorous selection process that favors those who are most suitable and effective for this environment. Journalists are probably no more conscious of the hermeneutic that fish are conscious of the water around them.”
Thus, without any need for conspiracy, the elite media simply doesn’t report that which interferes with good social policy as they see it.