Its too late for reform.
"Its too late for reform."
I stopped watching the lamestream years ago. There are just so many other news agencies and outlets out here that it doesn't make sense to limit information to the alphas or print dinosaurs.
Wrong. Free speech and voting have always been with us.
In any society there will always be differences of opinion and interest and these will be reflected in speech and actions - as they should be. Objectivity in the political sphere is impossible.
There's nothing wrong with the mainstream media, nothing to reform. It's only necessary to recognize that they represent particular points of view...and are open to criticism as such.
The worst danger is that a particular interest will dominate to such an extent that others cannot be heard. That's not the case today. Absolutely not.
Eric, you're so right... Mr. Halperin: who hires the next generation of news journalists at ABC? Do they have biases? Will those biases insure that anyone they hire has to "fit" into the current ABC/MSM culture? Do those people doing the interviewing and hiring have more allegiance to the organization (the dying Media Dinasour) or to the "culture". If the hiring is being done from one of the "elite journalism schools" -- what biases can the expect coming out of those schools?
The mainstream media has been liberal-to-commie-sympathizing for about 70-80 years... so I think the dye is cast. The mainstream media is going to have to die and be replaced by the citizen journalists of the web and future new media inventions. The genie is out of the bottle -- and it won't be put back in, EVER!