Mother Jones is one of those “must read” kind of ‘zines. Granted, I don’t keep up with it nearly as much as I should, but on Mondays, I am able to give a lot more time to reading all this stuff. This is a great article critiquing the current state of not just media consolidation, but simply media ownership and what effect that has on the bias presented to us. Enjoy.
Why Media Ownership Matters
We see reporters in the cockpits of war planes, interviewing pilots about how it feels to be at the controls. We almost never see journalists at the target end, asking people huddled in their homes what it feels like not to know what the next moment will bring.
But we don’t see the real images of war. We don’t need government censors, because we have corporations sanitizing the news. A study released last month by American University’s School of Communications revealed that media outlets acknowledged they self-censored their reporting on the Iraq invasion out of concerns about public reaction to graphic images and content.
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