BBC: Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media?

[Douglas Carpenter]

link to full article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4214516.stm

snip: "Amidst the horror, American broadcast journalism just might have grown its spine back, thanks to Katrina.

National politics reporters and anchors here come largely from the same race and class as the people they are supposed to be holding to account.

They live in the same suburbs, go to the same parties, and they are in debt to the same huge business interests.

Giant corporations own the networks, and Washington politicians rely on them and their executives to fund their re-election campaigns across the 50 states."

link to full article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4214516.stm

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. You are Late, but you got the right article

This has already been posted here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4640022&mesg_id=4640022

[Douglas Carpenter]

2. ya, sorry about that--I just found out after I posted

Still, it won't hurt to have it here on the Editorial page

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. True. The BBC article is an editorial.

[Burried News]

4. Another load of Truth to the Catapult.

"The most spectacular example came last Friday night on Fox News, the cable network that has become the darling of the Republican heartland.

This highly successful Murdoch-owned station sets itself up in opposition to the "mainstream liberal media elite".

But with the sick and the dying forced to sit in their own excrement behind him in New Orleans, its early-evening anchor Shepard Smith declared civil war against the studio-driven notion that the biggest problem was still stopping the looters.

On other networks like NBC, CNN and ABC it was the authority figures, who are so used to an easy ride at press conferences, that felt the full force of reporters finally determined to ditch the deference. "

[Cha]

5. It's so sickening..the bbc have

the American media's number.

Who knows if Katrina saved the media or they will go right back to be the bushwa Toadies?

[TheFriar]

6. they already have

Russert sucked with Chertof but the media is saying how tough he was. He went limp from the beginning of the interview.

I knew they weren't going to follow up...