Every charge now, however farcical, is promulgated by an infrastructure of perpetual grievance — cable news, talk radio, blogs, and the like — that channels middle-class discontent in the right direction (toward "liberal fascists," judges, lawyers, and "takers") and not the wrong one (indifferent Republican legislators and their enablers).
Fox News' perpetual domination of the cable news rankings continued in October, with the network taking the top 11 spots in the list.
Other tactics Orwell warns against and/or suggests are historical revisionism (too much regulation caused our economy to collapse!) 24/7 propaganda (a certain cable news network), and perpetual war: Eastasia, Eurasia, Afghanistan, Iraq, "Terror," and most effective of all, Red and Blue.
As it tried to shift from being a premium service, the Disney Channel was best known for its cartoon shows — and as a perpetual also-ran to its basic-cable rival Nickelodeon.
When I spoke with Anton Zhelnov, a political reporter at Dozhd, a scrappy and creative independent cable channel, which is in perpetual danger of shutting down, he said that his contacts in the Kremlin can't help but be pleased by the multiple U.S. investigations into Russian interference, whether by the media or Congress.
Alicia takes in the cable show with glazed, binge-watching eyes, drinking deeply from her perpetual goblet of red wine.
Put simply, Americans like to be liked.Yet turn on cable television and you are confronted with a series of people who are in a perpetual state of outrage.
All indications are that the DirecTV-Viacom spat was seen as a positive for other cable and satellite providers as well, who might be emboldened to also take the stand against perpetual price increases and further bundling of networks that their subscribers don't want.
