On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:10:25 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:22:02 -0400, Warp wrote:
> 
>> > Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> >> If they're privately held companies, they can do whatever they like.
>> > 
>> >   That's certainly not true in the general case. There are tons of
>> >   laws
>> > governing what private companies can and cannot do, even with their
>> > own property. Monopoly law is just one example.
> 
>> Sure, I was exaggerating for effect; they can, however, report the news
>> that they feel is important, and they can do so in a biased way if they
>> so desire.
> 
>   Well, there are also journalism ethics for unbiased reporting...

Sure, but they often aren't followed or the articles are intended to be 
editorials.  The problem is that a lot of news media (not just print 
news) is *all* heavily editorialized.

This is my biggest beef with the news media in general - it tends to be 
overly editorialized, to the point of the writer/producer telling people 
what to think and why to think it.

This type of editorialization in mainstream media tends to lead to a 
populace that doesn't and often can't think for itself.  Which I think is 
a bad place for a society to be.

Jim

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