“Media Money”

In our society, a person’s worldview is increasingly based upon events that were not physically experienced but dictated to him or her by the various media. Though the media is an effective tool for communication, one must remember its actual purpose. A television news program, like any other television program in this capitalist system, exists to make a profit. It makes this profit by selling advertising time and it sells advertising time by getting high ratings. It is not designed to simply tell you the news, but to tell you the news in a way that will keep you from changing the channel. The same applies to radio news programs, while newspapers are written to sell the newspaper itself. They are all designed to tell the news, but more importantly they are designed to tell the news in a manner that will generate a profit. To some this may seem like a minor distinction, but this difference determines which news stories are covered, the amount and visibility of coverage, and the manner in which they are editorialized. A society that accepts this edited information as the whole and unbiased truth subscribes to a worldview based upon popular opinion rather than fact and subjects itself to the will of the information providers. Without objective sources of information our society cannot make informed decisions concerning world events, or homeland politics. Such a state puts us in grave danger in this time of international power struggles and global corporations.

Al

Any person who risks the pressures of his peers to exercise his speech rights, is speaking for all of us and deserves our support.

June

What’s with you people? I gave a donation to Rep Wilson. You probably gave one to Miller. MoveOn.org is using what Rep. Wilson said to build up a huge war chest to be used against him.

I happen to be a supporter of Rep. Wilson. I will give more if he needs it. You liberals kill me complaining about us doing the exact same thing you are doing.

Melanie

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