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I can only assume based on the curious wording at the beginning of your first sentence, that you’re of “a people” who don’t hold history and/or free enterprise in high esteem. But what exactly is “anti-free market” about a business becoming larger by purchasing smaller businesses? That should be something that in a free market, businesses should voluntarily be allowed to do. Particularly during the first half of the 20th century, when big was almost invariably thought of as best when it came to corporations. And market forces (in the form of the Japanese car manufacturers of the 1970s and ’80s, building higher quality, more fuel-efficient, and at times better looking cars than GM) have certainly cut GM down to size, at least in terms of market share, although certainly not entrenched bureaucracy.

Which is why, as I’ve noted in my last two videos, GM these days is essentially “Government Motors”, which distorts whatever vestiges of the free market that remain far more effectively than any one business can.

Of course, as Jonah Goldberg and Steven Malanga have each recently noted, that’s just the way both big business and big government have wanted it, for quite some time.

Nothing is pre-determined. We could look back on this a few decades from now as the nadir of MSM influence before they went on to total mastery. More likely, I think the MSM is going under, but it does need help from Real Conservatives to do them in.

Your point that these idiocies foisted on the American public are cheered on — if not outright led — by the MSM is well-taken. But I take issue with your contention that the media is “more powerful than ever” and especially that its death is “greatly exaggerated” because these issues have taken root. Take a look around: newspapers are closing, the major networks are hemorrhaging viewers, even the old newsweeklies are on life support. If this is power I’d hate to see weakness.

Consider instead that the “smirking phalanx of Cool Kids” are just trading on their rapidly-declining brands and their cheerleading for these fallacies is *exactly* what’s doing them in. Media itself is certainly not going anywhere — there’s more of it than ever — but this bunch is just preaching to the declining converted. Why do you think they threaten a new “Fairness” Doctrine and get apoplectic over FOX, Limbaugh, and the like?

The issue is power, all right. But if they have so much of it, why are they so paranoid and in such lousy shape?