Media: the Alternative News

THROUGHOUT THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH there were independent newspapers everywhere in Canada. These papers reflected, in diverse ways, the democratic process and the struggle towards the realization of The Dream of Canada.

Today, in the new millenium, giving 'airtime' to diverse views and healthy debates is at a premium. This is because media outlets are now concentrated in a handful of individuals and corporations who more or less promote a likeminded worldview, which includes debatable notions such as:
government is inefficient, the private sector is efficient
a social welfare state is inherently bad because it encourages people (inherently lazy by nature) not to work
the market sector is inherently good, because it equally balances everything out

In place of healthy disclosure and debate of these and many issues, a centralized "spin" on information and events has occurred. I call the shaped result one-dimensional news- or the REAL "alternative" news. As well as alienating and dumbing people down, this media devolution gravitates primarily around an underlying premise ('spin') that there is only so much money, and no more.
The following links will explain the critical significance of this premise, and show that it is false.

Let us begin with a 'singular event' which occurred in 1974. It wasn't what you would call an earth-shaking event. It was more like a non-event! But I call it 'singular' because it radically reversed the progressive direction taking place globally at that time. This event was the adaptation of the theory of Monetarism.