Comments on: American Journalism Is Busy Being Reborn http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2010/02/04/american-journalism-is-busy-being-reborn/ Rory O'Connor's blog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:27:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Skib http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2010/02/04/american-journalism-is-busy-being-reborn/#comment-72439 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:53:42 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2010/02/04/american-journalism-is-busy-being-reborn/#comment-72439 Given how the impact of major media sources being beholden to their parent companies, their unwillingness to question or criticize major public officials effectively so as not to lose future interviews or be effectively blacklisted, the use of anonymous sources inside government without much if any effort to confirm the "information"... Yeah, we don't need a media any more beholden to government than we already have. Anyone remember a few years ago when the FCC was going to vote on further deregulation of the media markets, allowing corporations to own more TV/Newspaper/Radio in single markets? Funny that there was hardly a peep from them about it. Given how the impact of major media sources being beholden to their parent companies, their unwillingness to question or criticize major public officials effectively so as not to lose future interviews or be effectively blacklisted, the use of anonymous sources inside government without much if any effort to confirm the “information”…

Yeah, we don’t need a media any more beholden to government than we already have.

Anyone remember a few years ago when the FCC was going to vote on further deregulation of the media markets, allowing corporations to own more TV/Newspaper/Radio in single markets? Funny that there was hardly a peep from them about it.

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