BODYBAGS
Lies on TV
The power to control what is known - by millions, if not billions,
of people -rests with about 10 media conglomerates. This concentration
of power in corporations like Viacom, Disney, AOL Time Warner and
Rupert Murdoch's empire, News Corporation, was facilitated by the
Telecommunications Act of 1996. The Act gave the green light to corporate
media mergers, allowing these conglomerates to operate as media cartels
with global reach, virtually no meaningful regulation, and little
if any social responsibility.
As a consequence, authentic journalism - free from conflicts of interest
or oversight by the cartels - is disappearing at an alarming rate.
Journalism is no longer a practiced discipline, as it was pre-cartels,
but is now only one piece of a media portfolio, forced to take a back
seat to TV shows, music CDs, big-budget movies and other products
offering higher returns on investment. Journalism that previously
sought the truth is now researched, test-marketed, and packaged for
consumption with one ultimate objective: profits.
Read
More About The U.S. Government and Special Interests