I’ll admit I’ve always loved and admired Phil Donohue but after seeing him recently on Oprah and now seeing this clip http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/phil-donahue-media-consolidation-and-being he has become almost God-like to me.

Phil suffered the same back lash that I did (on on a much smaller scale) during the run up to the Iraq War. The sad part about all of this is I don’t think we as Americans have learned a bloody thing from the Iraq War and the complicity of the media in promoting an unnecessary-pre-emptive war. The consolidation of media ownership thanks to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 passed during the Clinton Administration has had a devastating effect on both the content and the character of mass media in America.