Comments on: ‘Don’t trust the media’ http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/14/dont-trust-the-media/ As The Media Watches The World, We Watch The Media Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:13:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Teddi Curtis http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/14/dont-trust-the-media/#comment-12588 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:41:50 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/14/dont-trust-the-media/#comment-12588 Remedies: Inforce the Fairness Doctrine. Rescind the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Or, turn off the TV and go to the internet and read the news of the world. Remedies: Inforce the Fairness Doctrine. Rescind the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Or, turn off the TV and go to the internet and read the news of the world.

]]> by: Francis Scalzi http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/14/dont-trust-the-media/#comment-12527 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:59:01 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/14/dont-trust-the-media/#comment-12527 The substance of Mr. Cohen's lecture to only an academic audience should certainly be far more widely disseminated, but with all due respect to the lecturer, many of us reached his conclusions more than a decade ago. That may well be a critical part of the reason the press is dying in the USA, strangled by losing readership though the greed and stupidity of its corporate owners. Until the current state of the media is somehow transformed, not merely reformed, our corporate media will gradually flush themselves down the drain and, hopefully, be replaced by other news and entertainment providers who are knowledgable, ethical, and actually honor the value of journalism. The substance of Mr. Cohen’s lecture to only an academic audience should certainly be far more widely disseminated, but with all due respect to the lecturer, many of us reached his conclusions more than a decade ago. That may well be a critical part of the reason the press is dying in the USA, strangled by losing readership though the greed and stupidity of its corporate owners.
Until the current state of the media is somehow transformed, not merely reformed, our corporate media will gradually flush themselves down the drain and, hopefully, be replaced by other news and entertainment providers who are knowledgable, ethical, and actually honor the value of journalism.

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