Posted by ascendingstarseed
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My background is in Radio Broadcasting so I can speak on this issue with some authority, and have seen the entire industry crumble away over the last 20 years. I've watched foreign news bureau's all over the world get shut down by bean counters because they weren't profitable for the company. I've seen the best of the best in journalism leave the business or be miserable in jobs they once loved because they can no longer conduct honest investigative reporting because it will damage the reputation of station sponsors, politicians or some other capitalistic nonsense having nothing to do with telling people what they need to know.
Instead of repeating myself, here's a thread I had going with Deega last week on this very same issue where I go into detail what has happened to the media in the last 20 years and why news has been canceled, DOA. I really wish people here on PA would enlighten themselves on the importance of getting news from credible sources and that there aren't any left in mass media. I constantly see politically biased content people post on PA that are simply lies, and I can tell they've been sitting there listening to Fox News, one their affiliates, Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, Drudge etc because they're all telling the same lies in lockstep everyday.
And until people start getting their news from credible sources this nation will stay confused, dumb down with no one knowing up from down.
Here's the thread...
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...omic-Collapse!
Yes, most people have cable or satellite TV which is a service you pay for. No this has nothing to do with getting rid of Jesse Ventura, this has to do with the lack of real news in programs that claim to be reporting the news but are doing nothing more than editorializing the news. Telling people what they want to hear rather than what they need to hear. There was a time when news was a public service offered to the community and the networks/local stations didn't make a profit from delivering the news. Once news got handed over to the Programming Depts to make a profit news became competitive and now it's served up as entertainment slathered with biased political opinion. When the news becomes something about the newscaster or their opinion, it's no longer news.
This is a HUGE issue and problem that most Americans really have little understanding for, and they think that because they trust or can relate to the person they invite into their living room every nite that this person is telling them the truth. When people like Glenn Beck and Fox News are all about lies and political propaganda that have nothing to do with the news that concerns our lives. MSNBC isn't much better, but at least they try to get the facts right. Both stations are editorializing and politicizing the news...its not an authentic, unbiased news report when the reporters opinion is interjected at any time.
The ONLY real newscast left on TV is the Jim Leher Hour on PBS and now Republicans in Congress want to put PBS on the chopping block.
Something needs to happen and if it means the government stepping in to regulate the situation then I have no problem with that because mass media is dredging the bottom right now and it can't get much worse. I used to be a TV news junkie, I'm still a news junkie but I no longer watch TV or TV news because I hit an epiphany when I realized how deep the programming and mind control is. It'll be interesting to see what happens, because I doubt that Rockefeller speech will have much affect since the stations he's talking about are owned by conservative Republicans who are using the media to shape public opinion to their viewpoint. But, it sounded like he meant business, and this hearing was about Fox's predatory business practices with their affiliates - not about news content.
I remember the day when there were honest news reporters and stations that reported the news the good, the bad and the ugly because it's what we need to hear to make well informed decisions. News stations competed to get the story right, not for ratings and sponsors. The Vietnam War stopped when reporters finally sent photograph home with innocent people running from burning villages with their skin hanging off their burning bodies. People were outraged at the horrors and it wasn't long before the war ended after that.
But the Bush crime family made sure nothing like that gets aired with the current wars because independent reporters aren't allowed to cover the war, only reporters from major networks and accompanied by troops so everything is censored.
I really encourage everyone to listen to Randi Rhodes, she's working so hard at helping people understand what's happened in the media and is talking about an issue very few have had the integrity to cover in an honest manner.
"Progressive" talk radio is about the only source for real honest feedback on what's happening, they're the only ones providing us with verifiable facts. This is an issue I've examined from a professional perspective for a long time now and until things change, it's a waste of time to watch TV news and the only thing on the radio that's credible anymore is a new format called Progressive with stations in Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and a few others as it catch's on in popularity.
There are only around 50 Progressive talk stations nationwide, and about 1000 conservative right wing propaganda stations that all walk in lockstep with each other with the same BS day in and day out. Most of it's political opinion mixed with hate, racism and it's all aimed at supporting the nest interests of Corporate America and the transnational corporations that are taking all the jobs overseas. It's all about profits for corporations that have no value for human life and are turning America into a third world country in the name of profits and low wages.
So who knows what Jay Rockefeller's motives are, we'll have to see. But maybe this is a sign that people in Congress are also sick to death of the lack of honest investigative reporting on current events, both national and international. We all want to know what's happening in the world but without foreign news bureaus and reporters we're not getting world news. Newscasts have become nothing but a joke and anyone trained in broadcast news or who is old enough to remember what is was like to watch Walter Cronkite's newscasts should relate to my point here that the news has been canceled for a long time now...so long most people have no idea what a real newscast is.
Be sure to check out my other thread, I go into detail on what's happened and why. And also please check out Randi on line, you can find streaming talk radio like Seattle's KTPK and at normangoldman.com he even offers free podcasts of his show. And he's great too.. a former lawyer taking politics apart from the legal perspective, and he really fights for the working class.
We can't all come together on the same page until we are all getting credible information ...thanks for your feedback Teakai!
Jay Rockefeller Speaks out Against the Dumbing Down by News Mass Media
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