The Trouble with the Media PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 29 March 2010 06:10
Posted March 29, 2010 

The media today are not dispassionate reporters, but rather promoters of positions and opinions held by their owners and management. They are sellers of entertainment in the form of news, and will create to sell what others want to buy. I can’t listen to CNN or FOX without wincing at the bias each expresses almost non-stop.  
            
 
In today’s society if seems that if one does not agree with someone, it is not merely a difference of opinion, but the other party must be demonized as intentionally wrong, even characterized as unethical, amoral, or illegal because of the views held, opinions expressed or actions taken. In the face of evidence, far too many of us will still cling to contrary beliefs held dear, even if unsupported by accepted fact or intersubjectively testifiable observation. 
 
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written by Jeff McBee, March 29, 2010
I respectfully disagree. When you refer to the media as potentially being biased and catering to corporate pressures, I think you mean the visual media, primarily television. There is still a healthy system of checks and balances in print media, although how much longer print media will be in existence is in doubt. Unfortunately, the terms "journalistic integrity" and "visual media" are rarely found in the same sentence.
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written by bruce lund, March 29, 2010
Jeff;
Hello, and thank you for reading and commenting. I am glad to hear you think that. My diet of print media is limited to the Wall St. Journal, USA Today, both I feel are more neutral. I can no longer read the NY Times, and I struggle with the bias I see in Time Magazine. Not that alternate views are not aired, but the predominate position is clearly evident. I would like to know more about that system of checks and balances you refer to.

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