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Re:Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. by jlgreco on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @05:14PM (#4719672)
Don't get me wrong, if I were in charge of those companies I would be a fool to try to run them any differently. All I am saying is that whatever the reason (be it deliberation, market forces, or something else entirely) these companies are capable of putting out a consistent message, provided you look at it from a certain perspective.

I suppose you could say I am stretching the meaning of "agenda". Non-deliberate messages, which most of the "pro establishment" stuff probably is, probably doesn't really qualify as agenda now that I think about it.

Re:Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. by tptacek on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @05:17PM (#4719692)
Sure. I'm just suggesting that this may be a variant of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy. Media companies don't drive the consistency of the culture; they simply feed on the enormous latent drive to comforting conformity that's hardwired into our species.
Re:Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. by jlgreco on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @05:18PM (#4719701)
Right, agreed.