Dan Rather speaks out in a candid, one-on-one interview with The Guardians Gary Younge in which he reveals the disturbing truth about the corporatization of mainstream news media, the corruption, how deep it runs, how it is signaling the demise of true investigative journalism, and WHY YOU SHOULD CARE. DR: Whats changed is that.. any reference to public interest has just about disappeared. And thats a signal change. Thats a big change. GY: Do you consider that a violation of the public trust? DR: I do. I do consider it a violation of the public trust. DR: Whats happened in the banking industry, in the insurance industry, the health care and hospital industry.. has also infected the news industry. Which is today, having said, that any talk of operating a news operation as a public trust has all but disappeared. That.. and Im pausing only because.. I apologize, for this language is necessary.. VERY BIG business is in BED with BIG power in Washington.. for their mutual interest, not in the public interest.. in their interest. The large conglomerates who operate on a worldwide basis and for whom news is only a very small part of their overall business. Consolidation of media in this country has reached the point where, no more than six.. my count is four, of these conglomerates control something more than 80% of the true national distribution of news in this country. Now thats important because the leaders of these very large corporations, they have business that they want out of the powers that be in Washington.. whether Washington be led at any given time by Republicans or Democrats. And of course, those in power in Washington want things from the leaders of the corporations. Theyd like to have sweetheart coverage, at the very least they dont want reporters mucking around, digging deep and exposing malfeasance, if not something worse. So, thats the point weve reached today and, yes i do think this is a violation of the public trust, and i do think its important not just for journalists and journalism, but for the public at large to understand what has happened, why it has happened and why they should care about it. ...an example would be, that in the case one of the large American networks was until very recently, owned by a company that did a lot of the defense contracting business. A huge part of their overall corporate business. They were competing for contracts. They certainly did not want any deep digging into how contracts were awarded.. and you saw very little coverage of that. In fact, almost none.https://youtube/watch?v=zL-c3bByTIg
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 05:01:56 +0000
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