just FYI, journalism is dead. [View All]

[Lerkfish]

I know, I know, we've all noticed the flies buzzing on the corpse for some time now.

What I'm saying is that it is not only dead, it is extinct as a species.
It was insidiously destroyed from within by corporate interests over a period of about 15 years. All the viable egg sacs have been burned.

Not only do the current owners dance on the grave, due to no FCC oversight of consequence, those owners have amassed such a large monopoly over the propaganda machine that they are powerful enough, in coordination with corrupt officials, to maintain that monopoly and destroy any minor annoyances like competition.


Actually, journalism was in hospice already when JOA (Joint Operating Agreements) were allowed to flourish, which allowed one of two competing papers to swallow the weaker one, and then print both papers on the same press, eliminating over time any sort of philosophical opposition to a monolithic political propaganda tool.

The web is our only hope, but its amazingly vulnerable. All you have to do is look at China and Google. Astroturfing. FBI investigations of political sites.

(Hello, Agent Mike).