1. The system of maintaining control over a nation by utilizing the media, usually perpetrated under the guise of "Freedom of Speech". A system of mediocracy is not limited strictly to using the mass media or mainstream media to achieve its ends. It may often use "independent" and "underground" media outlets, such as blogs and podcasts, to achieve its ends.
2. The third horseman of the Military Industrial Media Complex (formerly known as the Military Industrial Complex).
2. The third horseman of the Military Industrial Media Complex (formerly known as the Military Industrial Complex).
def. 1. - The United States claims to be a democracy but in reality it is a mediaocracy.
def. 2. - The mediaocracy is instrumental in creating an environment of unrest and political, social, class, & racial polarization among our citizens to distract them from the real issues.
def. 2. - The mediaocracy is instrumental in creating an environment of unrest and political, social, class, & racial polarization among our citizens to distract them from the real issues.
by stonelotus May 16, 2007
Get the mediaocracy mug.1) Rule by those who are of average or below average competence.
2) A society in which people with little (if any) talent and skill are dominant and highly influential.
3) A social or administrative system which is like an antithesis to a meritocracy.
2) A society in which people with little (if any) talent and skill are dominant and highly influential.
3) A social or administrative system which is like an antithesis to a meritocracy.
Eg 1) "With the presidency of George W. Bush, America has completed its transition from democracy to mediocracy."
2)"The success of Big Brother is indicative of our present society being a in a state of mediocracy."
2)"The success of Big Brother is indicative of our present society being a in a state of mediocracy."
by St.O. June 16, 2006
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An elected system of representation in which the populace is governed by civil servants who are responsible solely to safeguard state institutions and representatives who safeguard the integrity of the vote itself.
A duality of totalitarian democracy and democratic confederalism.
A duality of totalitarian democracy and democratic confederalism.
Metocracy treats the will of the people and the desire of the people as distinct entities: dualistic and therefore contrapositional.
by sandraxine June 19, 2018
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Kim Il-sung is the Eternal President of North Korea, and Kim Jung-Il is the Eternal Supreme Leader of North Korea thus making it a Mortocracy.
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Is this leadership of the best & the brightest, or is this Mediocracy?
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"Hey Steve, did you happen to catch the last episode of Mediocracy on MediocracyTV.com? I heard it was a real knee-slapper."
by allthethings87 March 5, 2013
Get the Mediocracy mug.The 41st through 44th presidents of the United States--George Herbert Walker Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama--make up the mediocracy that governed the U.S. for the last part of the 20th and early 21st Centuries.
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