Here is a great overview of the amount of money from the entertainment industry that is buying votes in Congress. Berman tops the list on this election cycle. A couple of things are obvious: the amount of money being spent to buy votes is accelerating. It is up 400% over 1990 mid-term election cycle. How can indviduals even hope to compete against the staggering ~$125 m the entertainment industry has spent over the last 12 years? Our only hope is that more people become aware that corruption of Congress by the entertainment industry is going to threaten their privacy, rights, and investments (in computer systems). [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]
The best thing ordinary people can do is to pool their money and pay for TV ads right before the election reporting how much the candidates took from the entertainment industry. Oh, wait–the “campaign finance reform” law makes that a crime. Only the news media (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the entertainment industry) is allowed to talk about the issues before an election now.
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