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Originally Posted by shakran
Since I make my living making people answer MY questions, it's only fair that I turn the tables on myself. I'm open to any questions you have about this or other aspects of the profession.
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It's interesting to have the perspective of a professional television journalist to consider. I'm curious about whether as a journalist you have experienced media corporation bias that affects which stories get air time, and which ones don't. Maybe not politically overt stories, but more subtle effects like a failure to report on aspects of proposed legislation that might for example make VCR's illegal.
IMHO, most people don't believe that the problems with mainstream media come from biased journalists so much as it does from biased media barons. There seems to be an ever dwindling number of independant opinions in the media conglomerates, and I wonder whether we've let things go too far already. I've heard that people with differing opinions from certain media corporations can't even BUY airtime on their networks to get their issues heard. What are your thoughts on that?