The The Pentagon and mercenary corporations being the two items you're weighing.
...military analysts represent more than 150 military contractors either as lobbyists, senior executives, board members or consultants. The companies include defense heavyweights, but also scores of smaller companies, all part of a vast assemblage of contractors scrambling for hundreds of billions in military business generated by the administration’s war on terror. It is a furious competition, one in which inside information and easy access to senior officials are highly prized...
It's the competition of the Imperial Court.
So if the media is controlled by the corpocracy perhaps it's not surprising in a time where the economy is falling apart due to corporate policy masquerading as government the media fails to become the message despite its best attempts to Disneyfication of the process:
...ABC would not have been so widely pilloried had it not tapped into a larger national discontent with news media fatuousness. The debate didn’t happen in a vacuum; it was the culmination of the orgy of press hysteria over Mr. Obama’s remarks about “bitter” small-town voters. For nearly a week, you couldn’t change channels without hearing how Mr. Obama had destroyed his campaign with this single slip at a San Francisco fund-raiser. By Wednesday night, the public was overdosing.
Mr. Obama did sound condescending, an unappealing trait that was even more naked in his “You’re likable enough, Hillary” gibe many debates ago. But the overreaction to this latest gaffe backfired on the media more than it damaged him. For all the racket about “Bittergate” — and breathless intimations of imminent poll swings and superdelegate stampedes — the earth did not move. The polls hardly budged, and superdelegates continued to migrate mainly in Mr. Obama’s direction...
Note that even in reporting the ineffectiveness of the reporting of their competition, ABC, the corporate line is maintained by Pravda always. "Mr. Obama did sound condescending" stating the obvious fact that the main$tream won't touch. People are mad as hell. They're bitter.
But that is something the main$tream thinks its ad men can talk you out of.
Meanwhile, the Empire continues to function as a smooth machine at the best task it's capable of doing, putting all the fossil carbon back into the atmosphere, which, you know, is all China's fault.
Doubtless this is all China's fault too, according to our fair and balanced analysts. But don't worry, the free market is a rising tide that lifts all boats. The floating ones, anyway.
The rest just have to adjust to their place in the Bu$h economy:
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Once again, Go Swedes! I'd no idea that Europe has decreased its consumption so significantly.
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