Should we quit calling the media...corporate media?

[cynatnite]

It seems like they are actually doing their job for a change and aren't pulling any punches. Faux news doesn't count, BTW.

Do we really have our press back or is this some kind of horrible trick?

[MelissaB]

1. Do you really trust them now?

It will take a long time for me.

[SteppingRazor]

2. Well, they are still corporate media...

why not call a spade a spade?

[LiberalEsto]

3. They remain corporate-owned & controlled

Perhaps * is temporarily in disfavor with the corporate media barons.

I still don't trust them.

[lcordero2]

4. nope

they are still the corporate media. They are simply trying to save their own asses.

[McKenzie]

5. nah "Ministry of Propaganda" is more appropriate

that's effectively what the Quisling gits have been doing for years, with a few, honourable exceptions.

[Eric J in MN]

6. Let's see how they handle the next presidential election

at least, before we go easy on them.

[Tatiana]

7. No. It's the truth.

NBC - General Electric
CBS - White Westinghouse
ABC - Disney

They are all owned by corporations. And make no mistake, the MSM is only starting to really report the news because they realize Bush is going down. Hard to get favors out of a lame-duck.

[ClassWarrior]

10. Yup. It's objective truth. That's the beauty of the expression.

But please don't call them the "MSM." There's nothing "mainstream" about their sick agenda... even if they're showing some integrity lately.

NGU.

[Tatiana]

11. Point well-taken. ;) n/t

[Selatius]

12. General Electric is one of the largest defense contractors in the US

You can bet your bottom dollar they are making money building the guns and bombs going to Iraq. Greed would dictate then that war is good for the bottom line, at least in the board room of GE.

[annabanana]

8. nope... corporate they are, and corporate they will remain..

The question is whether they will use OUR airwaves for the good of the body politic... or their bloody pocketbooks..

The government is supposed to be ours, after all... not theirs.

[cyr330]

9. They may have one or two stories right?

Sorry. . . . They can't correct all the shit they've done with just 1-2 stories. The fact that we have this moronic fuck in the WH is largely the responsibility of the corporate media. Look at the Iraq War-- the media were cheerleaders; the 2000 election?--no investigation; fraud in the 2004 election? no investigation; all the lies and corruption in the WH? no investigation; fact checking of the Swift Boat Liars?--they reported it as FACT with no investigation. . . . I could go on and on and on and on. Their behavior is unforgivable. How could we NOT call them the corporate media?

[Imagevision]

13. Anyone know how many media's General Electric owns/controls

and the amount of defense contracts they receive from Iraq?

[reality based]

14. I suspect the corporate bosses

(a) are trying to hedge their bets (how else to explain Olbermann?),
(b) have finally concluded that Bush and company are hopeless screw ups, or
(c) have learned that Cheney has been ousted from real control.