Junk News Is Making Us Sick

Today in the Congress, powerful U.S. Senators from both parties berated FCC Chairman Kevin Martin about his plans to open the floodgates of media consolidation across America on December 18th. And Martin didn't flinch.

It's easy to stand firm when you're a Bush operative with the backing of the White House and a seven digit paycheck waiting for you when you quit your job.

Opposition to media titans like Rupert Murdoch buying up more media is a reaction to the pathetic state of the journalism and entertainment. To drive home the point, Free Press launched a 3-minute "Junk Media" video to sound the alarm, and rally opposition to the December 18th vote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilNLeXefmNw

Last time Bush & Co. tried this, nearly 3 million people - from the left and right - rose up and said no.

They're doing it again at www.stopbigmedia.com

Comments

[ModeratelyExtreme]

Why is it that:
Self-righteous indignation is so damned addictive?
That there are no Muslim, Asian or Australian "Shouting Heads" on Talk TV?
Keith Oberman doesn't do a real news/opinion show? Morrow and Cronkite got away with it.
Glen Beck and Ann Coulter don't moderate the political debates? Fair is fair, if the candidates are going to made to look like idiots, the moderators should do their share of the heavy lifting.
Television was better when there was less of it?
Peace on Earth,
ME

[realitytrumpsbull]

I think that for a lot of the Official Story
vendors, the beginning of the end is in
sight for their monopoly on the ol' informationer, and as a result some of them are starting to sweat rather profusely. And, as far as Murdoch et. al. are concerned, well, the
Internets are going to show them up, too...

[fedupnburnin]

Its not just the crap they try to pass off as news. T.V. programming in general absolutely reeks. Anyone with half a brain intuitively knows there's more going on in this country and the government than the propagandi­stic,manip­ulative crap they choose for news. "Any news but the news" ought to be the slogan of the mainstream media.

[Novista]

OK, I believe you about junk news. Junk media.

Once, I was chief engineer of a TV commercial production house. My bad. But hey, it fed the family, paid the bills.

I have an even worse problem for you: junk history. After a lifetime of digging into the devils in the details, I am reasonably assured that what we're taught, what we believe, is a great deal of the problem!

But hey, a recent survey suggests 80% of Americans spend several hours on the Internet each week. Further, most people have favourite news programs -- BUT! they do not trust the so-called news. No, more and more will Google, cross -reference and fact check now themselves.

That's more than MSM does! Maybe there's hope yet.