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Originally Posted by Elphaba
Knight Ridder also has received acknowledgement for refusing to be influenced by "access." They were usually the media source to first report that being said in the international press.
And I agree with you and alphi phi, Pan. I don't think we can fix our msp.
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The media can be fixed the government needs to regulate it again and prevent all the media being owned by a few small select groups.
When you allow someone like Clear Channel to own all of one media in a town how can you expect anything but biased and controlled news?
Then when you follow the paper trails and find that much like the oil companies the same people own ALL the large media groups, how can you expect fair and unbiased news?
That was why our government regulated it, to prevent this from happening and Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and W have all worked to make sure the rules were such that mass ownership would be allowed.
It's pathetic really. By allowing this to happen we have closed any form of competition down because these companies are able to control the market.
Regulating is the only way to fair and true competition back into the media.
Everyone of our media companies is heavily leveraged and indebted because of their rushes to pay unGodly amounts of money to buy the companies they needed to get that big.
The questions are how long can they last being indebt, and who truly holds the debt on each of these?