-Caveat Lector-
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000 10:36:28 -0500 Nurev Ind Research
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>-Caveat Lector-
>Big Business, As Seen On TV
>By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 14th December 2000
>If you want to know why the media needs to be regulated, take a look
>at Greg Dyke's speech to the CBI last month. "Too much of Britain's
mainstream
>news and current affairs programming," the BBC's director-general
>complained, "has ignored or failed to understand the real business
agenda." In
>future, he insisted, the BBC must show more "understanding" of the
>difficulties companies face. "I am totally committed to taking business
centre
>stage in the BBC."
We don't have this problem here in the U.S. The media fully understands
who is paying the bills and are committed to business. Just take a look
at the 1996 FCC rewrite: only half or every hour is devoted to program
content, removal of regulations on decibel variation between commercials
and program content, removal of any chance for low power stations, free
gifts of bandwidth to corporate interests, etc.
>Most newspapers expose only the misdemeanors of the powerless, while
>the central political issue of our age, the corporate takeover of public
>life, is left to tiny underfunded groups such as Corporatewatch to
>investigate.
and this is news? That has been the tactic for many years. Pepper us
with the mundane acts while the major incursions go unreported. Never
ask "Why?".
>"During times of universal deceit," George Orwell wrote, "telling the
>truth becomes a revolutionary act." The government has backed universal
>deceit.
I gotta save this little nuget. That makes CTRL revolutionary. Love it.
Vive La Revolution!!!! Keep yer powder dry!
Jayson
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