The presumed independence and competitive operation of entertainment and communications industry is illusory. The media may be considered as a single functionally integrated parasitic organism which includes the advertising industry. “Simply expressed, what is consciously perceived by individuals, groups or nations has little or nothing to do with the physical, biological, economic and social realities the perceptions represent. “
Advertising supported media viewers are not citizens whom broadcasters compete to inform but consumer victims to be coerced and manipulated. Advertising supported legacy media is not a passive partner in subversion - they are the "experts" in subliminal influence – and they are planners and profit participants in the exploitation, deception and social engineering and now the principal architects of the psychological attack intended to destroy America.
Media has been doing this ever since advertising supported media was born. Karl Kraus the Viennese satirist, documented the advertising supported media’s role in fomenting the incompetent and disastrous charade of WW I. One of Kraus’s recent translators, Michael Russell, summarizes, “Kraus saw a powerful influential press in Vienna becoming ever more mendacious, manipulative, corrupt and self-serving, forming ever stronger ties with the aristocratic, industrial, financial and above all political elites of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and later, after the war, with the struggling democracy of a new Austria.”
Kraus recognized as did many that the media was an apocalyptic threat, creating a false reality, one which it was impossible to reject publicly without being considered a fool or a mad man. Since Kraus’s day the advertising-media superorganism has developed technologically and consolidated economically until six companies today enjoy near total control over all human communication.