Re: Former DOJ Prosecutor Files $3 Billion Suit Against Obama, Holder, NSA, Verizon Over PRISM

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 02:09:32PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Do yo think the government (or the oligarchy) is controlling the media?

The oligarchy *owns* the media, if we define "media" as "major newspapers,
magazines, radio stations, television stations, and cable networks".
Over the past several decades, the dividing line between the newsroom
and the business department has steadily eroded -- as a timely example,
the newspaper of Woodward, Bernstein, Bradley, and Graham has this past
week quietly announced "sponsored" editorials.  Gack.  Blech.

It's not in their business interest to dig too deeply, or admit that
they were scooped, or irritate the powerful, or spend the resources
necessary to uncover something approximating "the truth".

Unfortunately, journalism in the US has (not entirely but in many cases)
degenerated into polemic on one hand and stenography on the other.  I find
this incredibly sad.

---rsk
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