Reply #6: economics and the media [View All]

[sweetheart]

There is a flaw in the public media "free market".
News programmes must target a significant demographic and keep it.
This attempt to segment and target demographics is purely linked
with the "majority" rules. As they all pitch to the majority "with
us or against us", they're all with us, and protesting this
banal "separation" of media from state is discouraging. There is
editorial conflict of interest in american media, through ownership
collusion.

As reporting complex real life journalism, and investigating
official claims against truth, is no longer the objective of
the "news" sheets, and stations... the programming is
simply "entertainment" and as relevant to life as "The Oakland
Raider's coaching changes." The only way to get honest truth out
of this market flaw, towards exploiting public paranoia to the
bottom in a race of populist journalism. The only way around this
is through market intervention.

The journalists are put to an equal time, truth in journalism
collar, that can "disbarr" a journalist for reporting nontruth.
Similarly, a news organization can be disbarred from broadcasting,
much as banks are for serious deriliction of professional conduct.

I think this the precursor to introducing plurality in media, that
all of multicultural america is included in the great melting pot.

To achieve excellence in news, a news reporting station should have
to show a 50% expenses going towards investigative journalism.
There are ways to regulate the industry from the balance sheet, to
force it to administrate a plural opinion common. The ability for
media to steam off all issues of the hot smelter, is only in its
depth to divine the public conscience... and speaking freely on
behalf of only the agency of "truth" is the bellweather.

To really fix the market imperfection, it should have to service ALL
the demographics of american people equally. That no media
supports fringe ideals, the mainstream actually is a systematic
repression of political free speech. A network transmission system
must accomodate all demographics of american life in their
programming, including prison programming, military programming,
gay programming, feminist programming, sexually liberal
programming, drugs liberal programming and all the repressed
segments of real-life america that are misrepresented by
the "truth"... when in fact, their very esistance speaks to the
truth of REAL america. Programming needs a regulator, i believe,
modelled on the british "http://ofcom.gov.uk" Putting all media
regulation under 1 regulator, including telecommunications and all
communicationss.. ALL. That single regulator is charged with
ensuring the public service objectives of the british media. The
office is very new and not wholly understood, by people outside
softswitch regulation. the methods are to be admired.