Human vs. Psychopathic Media
Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 00:17
The mainstream media is beginning to feel the heat from the web. This is very much just the start of what they will come to face in the very near future.
In the article below (from today's Media Guardian), former Murdoch journalist Jonathan Miller writes:
"Newspapers must be prepared to take criticism and suggestions. A journalist who publishes a story should face the consequences... This is unsettling for journalists accustomed to controlling the agenda, but it is also sound commercial sense."
The "sound commercial sense" gives the game away, and gives the lie to Miller's later comment:
"Newspapers enter this combat with some natural advantages. A newspaper-sponsored blog or something akin to it is always going to do better than most of the independent efforts."
Not a chance! The point is that "independent efforts" are unconstrained by irrational and uncompassionate distortions rooted in
the corporate media's legal obligation to maximise profits for shareholders. As Joel Bakan tells us in his book The Corporation, this obligation means that corporations are fundamentally psychopathic entities. People like Miller are powerless to do anything about this from within their own companies:
�The law forbids any motivation for their actions, whether to assist workers, improve the environment, or help consumers save money. They can do these things with their own money, as private citizen. As corporate officials, however, stewards of other people�s money, they have no legal authority to pursue such goals as ends in themselves - only as means to serve the corporations own interests, which generally means to maximise the wealth of its shareholders. Corporate social responsibility is thus illegal - at least when its genuine.� (Bakan, The Corporation, Constable, 2004, p.37)
The choice, in fact, is not merely between something called independent and something called
mainstream media; it is between human and psychopathic media. As more people realise that this is indeed the choice - that corporate psychopathy, corporate media psychopathy very much included - the corporate media will be under more and more pressure to change or disappear.
Continued:
Political tags�such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth�are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
- Robert A Heinlein
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
- H.L. Mencken
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