The State of American Media

[Yaw]

The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism's Project for Excellence in Journalism recently published a report about the quality of American news media. The report covers all media segments (including television, radio, newspapers, and the internet), and details various trends affecting performance. They have identified eight major trends, which are in brief:

A growing number of news outlets are chasing relatively static or even shrinking audiences for news...

Much of the new investment in journalism today - much of the information revolution generally - is in disseminating the news, not in collecting it...

In many parts of the news media, we are increasingly getting the raw elements of news as the end product...

Journalistic standards now vary even inside a single news organization...

Without investing in building new audiences, the long-term outlook for many traditional news outlets seems problematic...

Convergence seems more inevitable and potentially less threatening to journalists than it may have seemed a few years ago...

The biggest question may not be technological but economic...

Those who would manipulate the press and public appear to be gaining leverage over the journalists who cover them.

Highly recommended for insight into why news is the way it is, especially in terms of media biases.

[Supremor]

Wow! Those are some quite major problems.

I have noticed these things myself, whenever I have had the misfortune of watching American TV.

Is there a publically owned broadcasting service in America?
In Britain, and also in most other countries in the world(due to the world service), we have the BBC.

The thing about the BBC which I think will always make it a brilliant idea, is that although it is funded by the government, it is completely free and independent. This means that journalists go out of their way to be non-biased and often the best investigative journalists are born into this tradition.

The point is this- The BBC is able to stay completely non-biased, if not a little anti-government, but still retains the support of almost all of the public. In recent arguments between the government and the BBC, the BBC have carried the majority of support, despite the fact that they were being completely non-biased about their own part in the argument!

I suggest America get the ABC(American broad casting), that would solve alot of problems with your current system.

[coolguy]

America already has an ABC (American Broadcasting Company), one of the three major privately owned (commercial) television networks in the US in the 20th century, along with CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) and NBC (National Broadcasting Company).

US also has had a public television network similar to BBC named PBS (Public Broadcasting System) for decades.

All four of these "old" networks along with the fairly recent newcomer Fox Network are freely accesible in over 90% of the country.

There is also NPR (National Public Radio), a public-owned radio station. NPR, PBS and BBC are all extremely biased, IMO. In the US and in the UK (and probably everywhere else) tv and radio are completely regulated and controlled by government, so the rich and powerful who use the government as a tool to control the people also use the government as a tool to control the media, i.e., to control what the people do and don't see and hear.

The solution is not to create more public "channels" but for the people to disallow the government from controlling what they see and hear by protesting and repudiating the government's "right" to regulate the airways, but the people are far too miseducated and misinformed to even consider it.

The rich and powerful people who control the United States (and the world) need to maintain the brainwashing of the American public more than the people of any other country because the American government, which answers to the American people, has all of the military might needed to control the "rest of the world." By controlling some 300 million people's minds, only 100 million of whom vote at most, the rich and powerful effectively control all 6 billion human inhabitants of Earth.

It's a simple equation - use mind control on a small group that in turn uses brute force to control all the other groups... mind-control on those other groups is unneccesary as brute force is the simplest and most efficient means of controlling people. So all they need to do is keep those 100 million voters (tools) brainwashed in order to maintain control of humankind. They spend an enormous amount of money (in the eyes of an average person, but only a small operating cost to themselves) using the media and education systems in place to keep the American voters brainwashed. The amount of money spent in other countries to control men's minds is far less, which is why the media in UK, India, France, Germany, Japan, etc (everywhere else) is far more realistic, rational and sensible than what is shown on American television - the amount of effort going into mind-control is exponentially higher in the United States. (And it's working).

Reading suggestion: Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent (mp3 audiobook available upon request, just don't tell Noam - and send him a couple bucks if you like it; that's more than his publisher would give him if you bought it from a store for ten times as much).