It is very important to note that 100 years ago, we had more than 100 times as many different interests contributing to the official news media. There were more locally owned news sources which were not subsidiaries or fronts for larger mega-corporations. There was no television, so the people relied on the newspapers and the people they met in the world for information. While it was harder to find reliable information about what was happening in the world, it was easier to figure out what was happening where you lived. Today, only a handful of corporations control the vast majority of mainstream news sources. Corporations like News Corp, Bertelsmann, and Time Warner collectively controlling huge parts of the market, with actual numbers and percents obscured by shell-corporations owning each other. This media centralization assures that if we do not take the time to educate ourselves, to inform ourselves from sources other than the TV, we are allowing not only our viewpoint, but also the very basis of our view: the information we base our view on, to be spoon fed to us by highly impersonalized forces with the primary objective of maximizing profit. What exactly does this mean? This means the interests of those who decide what goes on the air, in the newspaper, decide what is investigated, what is published, what information is ignored or emphasized, do not feel connected to the people who are consuming the news. They do not feel connected or identify with us.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:41:32 +0000
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