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Supreme -
The media, all those channels that are supposed
to give us the information we need to understand
what's happening, have been taken over and bent
to a corporate agenda. In a certain sense that
means they have betrayed the trust of their
readers, listeners, viewers. This will either
have to drastically change, or people are going
to turn to other sources for obtaining their
information.
Yes, this is a pretty sweeping statement, but
if you start to look, it is exactly what is
already happening. Take Whatreallyhappened.com
as an example. According to this eccellent interview
on Bankindex.com,
Michael Rivero's site has become something of
a substitute for media information for millions,
simply because he refused to concede that his
government should be allowed to lie to its citizens.
Millions of his readers seem to think the same.
They have to turn to alternative sources, because
the media does not offer information. John Pilger,
Australian broadcaster and film-maker, according
to this
article, says " ... as seen in the
Iraq coverage and elsewhere, journalists very
often assume the culture of the media institution
and all its unwritten restrictions.
But even the term self-censorship is not quite
right, Pilger says, because many journalists
are unaware that they are censoring themselves.
Media organizations are now under tight control,
Pilger says.
Just five
corporations rule the broadcasters
in the United States. In Australia Rupert Murdoch
controls 70 percent of the media. We
live in an age of information, he says. Yet
the media is not attacking the ruling system.
The media has never before been so controlled,
and propaganda is all around. Most of us don't
even see it. In an excellent article titled
"Information Control for Social Manipulation",
David
Deserano of Portland State University analyzes
the implications of corporate and military control
of the media for journalism and for constutionally
guaranteed "freedom of speech". For
now, you find the article in Nexus
Magazine which you can pick up at a newsstand
or get from their site. I do recommend you add
this to your "must reads". Hopefully
soon, the full article of Deserano should be
up and linked.