MSM's cowardly acquiescence of yellow journalism

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Jim Warren of The Chicago Tribune actually said, "The general trends in the media aren't good."

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The subject of the forum, co-sponsored by the Wolfsonian museum, was “Media, Propaganda, and the Forming of Opinions.” The other panelists were “Dateline NBC” correspondent John Hockenberry and Jane Hall, a former Los Angeles Times media writer currently teaching at American University in Washington, D.C.

The three journalists discussed troubling pressures that affect the ability of news organizations to report the truth. A major one is that with consolidation of news organizations into conglomerates like Time Warner, news outlets have numerous conflicts between their business interests and their reporting.

While NBC reports on the U.S. occupation of Iraq, its parent company, General Electric, has a half-billion dollar contract with the U.S. government to provide power generation in Iraq.

Warren said relatively smaller news companies like the Tribune, whose holdings include the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, probably have only one way to grow and catch up to companies like Time Warner and Viacom, and that’s to merge with other players.

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1. Depressing, depressing

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2. sad