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On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:10:25 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:22:02 -0400, Warp wrote:
>
>> > Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> 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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