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This week's guest is Howard Zinn, historian and author of A People's
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Rich Media, Poor Democracy

says it all

buy it

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/McChesney/RichMedia_PoorDemocracy.html

p ix
... if we are serious about democracy, we will need to reform the media system structurally ... this reform will have to be part of a broader movement to democratize all the core institutions of society.
p xiii
A media system set up to serve the needs of Wall Street and Madison Avenue cannot and does not serve the needs of the preponderance of the population.
... the concentration of media ownership, the hypercommercialization of culture, the ( decline of journalism, the globalization of the corporate media system and its relationship to the neoliberal global economy, the corrupt nature of U.S. media policy making, the collapse of public service broadcasting, and the tragic evolution of the First Amendment into a tool for the protection of corporate privilege.
p xiv
After two decades of conservative criticism and corporate inroads, the public system is now fully within the same ideological confines that come naturally to a profit-driven, advertising-supported system
p xv
In particular the professional reliance upon official sources and the need for a news peg or event, to justify coverage of a story plays directly into the hands of those who benefit from the status quo.
p xvi
Another long-term problem of the system is the commercial media's willingness to provide favorable coverage of politicians who provide them with favorable subsidies and regulations.
... the tacit quid pro quo of favorable coverage for favorable legislation and regulation rarely draws comment
p xvii
The corruption of journalistic integrity is always bad, but it becomes obscene under conditions of extreme media concentration as now exist.
p xviii
... mainstream news ... have effectively morphed over the past two decades as the news is increasingly pitched to the richest one-half or one-third of the population. The affairs of Wall Street, the pursuit of profitable investments, and the joys of capitalism are now often taken to be the interests of the general population... the affairs of working-class people have virtually disappeared from the news.
The sad truth is that the closer a story gets to corporate power and corporate domination of our society, the less reliable the corporate news media is.

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