Mark Heide
04-08-2003, 10:11 PM
I have been complaining on this forum about censorship in the press. Basically, what I have noticed is the major media just reporting what the federal goverment tells them are the facts without questioning why. I do not see this happen with local politics in local news, but at the federal level I see a overall biased support for what the federal government tells reporters.
I'm not proposing a consiricy theory concerning recent events. But, what I am proposing is that these major media companies lobby the federal government for favors and in turn have to provide favors for the government. To provide proof of this is extremely difficult. But, I have provided a few links to articles that will maybe help to inform those of you who are interested in having a press organization decide for itself what it should report.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011022&s=20011011miller
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020107&c=1&s=miller
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020304&s=miller20020221
What I believe is happening in this country is we getting our media censored by major corporations instead of government. If we continue on this path, I believe that we will be losing freedom of free speech.
There are more articles to read at the www.pbs.org/now (http://www.pbs.org/now) site on this subject. Currently, none of the mega media corporations are reporting these issues to the public, because they are trying to have the FCC resind the current laws with a vote on June 2, 2003.
Mark
I'm not proposing a consiricy theory concerning recent events. But, what I am proposing is that these major media companies lobby the federal government for favors and in turn have to provide favors for the government. To provide proof of this is extremely difficult. But, I have provided a few links to articles that will maybe help to inform those of you who are interested in having a press organization decide for itself what it should report.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011022&s=20011011miller
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020107&c=1&s=miller
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020304&s=miller20020221
What I believe is happening in this country is we getting our media censored by major corporations instead of government. If we continue on this path, I believe that we will be losing freedom of free speech.
There are more articles to read at the www.pbs.org/now (http://www.pbs.org/now) site on this subject. Currently, none of the mega media corporations are reporting these issues to the public, because they are trying to have the FCC resind the current laws with a vote on June 2, 2003.
Mark