Media Conglomerates Pt. 2

They don't want us to know, so media conglomerates keep it out of mainstream media, because that would be looked down upon, and possibly cause a loss of millions of dollars (God forbid!) This is a classic example of how we are presented with slanted news that doesn't really give us the big picture as to what really is happening in and around our lives.

One local news station's motto here in North East Ohio is "Honest, Fair, Everywhere." I'm really starting to second guess that, in every area of the media that we partake of. I think we, as students learning the truth about the media in a mass production and distribution not only have a reason to react to these things, we have an obligation. The media will only keep swallowing the society we live in, taking out the little independents to make more capital and further insure that the "real news" doesn't get out, UNLESS we decide to do something about it. We have to find a way to get out of this capitalistic hurricane that these conglomerates have us caught up in, and start to let the masses, which is the target audience of all media anyways, that something isn't right about the whole system.

In closing, I must say that I am a little disappointed to learn all of these things, even though I probably could have assumed that many of these things are true.I wish that more people understood the things that we are being presented with in this class, so that people could really make their own decisions for themselves instead of a news editor, who only wants to produce news that will please his superiors and bring in more capital, make those decisions for them. Our society has many more loop holes than we actually are lead to believe, and that has got to change if our Country is going to keep going as it has in the history books. I think its time we get back to the foundations of our capitalistic approach to economy, and start basing our country on the standards that our founding fathers solidified for us over 200 years ago.

~DeLiRi0uS~