Sparks: Brendan Carr’s FCC is more worried about who The View interviews than foreign governments owning Paramount
The situation is described as a regulatory oversight, yet beneath this surface, the bow is bent between the triviality of a morning talk show and the heavy weight of foreign gold pulling the string taut.
We watch the republic surrender its airwaves to distant crowns while policing the manners of its citizens, proving once again that a nation which loses its sovereignty over its own image has already invited its new masters to dinner.
The structural reality is that the state secures its internal influence by feigning outrage over speech, while its true interest lies in the silent transfer of strategic assets to powers capable of sustaining its commercial appetites.
What we now call regulatory focus is, before this analysis, merely a misclassification of systemic risk where the minor agitation of a single broadcast is weighed more heavily than the fundamental shift in the medium's ownership structure.
Examining the patient, I find a curious inflammation over a few spoken words while the vital organs of the broadcasting system are being quietly replaced by foreign transplants without the slightest concern for rejection.
As the flow of water is diverted by a small stone while the main current undermines the bridge's foundation, so does the regulator fixate on the surface ripple of a broadcast while the structural support passes to distant hands.
Things that are hateful: a high official who makes a great fuss over the guest list of a morning tea while quietly handing the keys to the entire house to a stranger from a far-off land.
It was decided that the most effective way to protect the integrity of the airwaves was to permit foreign monarchies to own them, provided they didn't let any women express opinions before lunch.
We live in the best of all possible worlds, where the guardians of the public mind protect us from the danger of a woman's conversation by selling our entire theater to the grand viziers of the East.