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Originally Posted by Willravel
Slight threadjack - what do you think of indy news? Bloggers and grassroots types of things? Democracy Now and such?
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As a general concept I dislike it. These, also, are untrained journalists. Just because Ford sucks doesn't mean I can run out in my back yard and cobble together a Lexus. It's not enough to have untrained people with desire to do better - they have to have the education and experience to do better.
As it is, most of the blogs out there actually grab stories from the big-boys (AP, Reuters, CNN Newssource) anyway and then render an opinion on it or point out where the journalist may or may not have gone wrong in his reporting.
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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
Holy Christ, you're Ted Baxter!
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WHO TOLD YOU!
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On a more serious note that directs what you're posting here. Why do we, as the public, demand better when the reality is that we don't practice what we preach? It's obvious that if our viewing demanded more in-depth, substantive news, we'd get it.
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1) you can demand all you want, but if you keep watching survivor, and you keep getting seduced by the trash-television, then that, is what the media companies are going to give you.
2) the media companies are owned by megacorporations who do not want a robust media to be questioning the government that gives them scads of breaks with which they can make trillions more dollars. They would much /rather/ you not have access to what's really happening.
3) news management and general station management tends to be clueless. They're convinced you guys are still bowled over by the fact that we can go live from the field. How can you expect them to give you what you really want?
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Originally Posted by Willravel
I don't think this is always the case. The revenue from PBS and other independent media come from donations, though the donors could still theoretically represent a possible reason for bias.
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just noticed this.
Yes, there's ad revenue. Watch the beginning and the end. "Major funding by a grant from Sombra Corporation" or whatever.