The Death of Journalism
-Is journalism being strangled by the corporate hand ?
-85% of the world's news is being reported by the following corporations: (News Corporation, General Electric, Viacom, AOL-TimeWarner, The Walt Disney Company, Vivendi Universal, and Bertelsmann AG.)
-Is news guided by profit really news ?
-How can a corporation be objective when it comes to reporting news, if a corporation's main objective is profit?
ob·jec·tive
adj.
1 a : relating to or existing as an object of thought without consideration of independent existence -- used chiefly in medieval philosophy b : of, relating to, or being an object , phenomenon, or condition in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptible by all observers : having reality independent of the mind
2 : relating to, characteristic of, or constituting the case of words that follow prepositions or transitive verbs
3 a : expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations
Before you believe the news that is being reported to you. First, you have to know who's selling it to you.
Learn who owns what:
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/
If this is an issue your interested in, and you should be. There's a great new film out that deals with this called "Orwell Rolls In His Grave" Please go and check it out.
