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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:13:52 -0500
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- From: AHMED@DAYTON.BITNET
- Subject: Re: Media/communicatioons
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- Janet,
-
- Thanks for clarifying... I now understand the "warrants" etc. a little
- better....
-
- Regarding the media.... I indicated that since the time of Vietnam and
- Watergate, the major media (TV, Time etc.) is now owned by major corporation
- that deal with gov't at various levels and thus susceptible to pressure...
- for example, RCA which owns NBC competes for defense contracts... plus,
- all of them, the networks, compete for a share of the advertisment budget
- of say, General Motors,...thus compromising their capability to investigate
- and report on that corporation... Basically, the advertisement and money making
- department controls the journalism and reporting to some extent.... I also
- gave examples in cities where the major and often only newspaper is dependent
- on their major advertisor and so will back off if the advertisor pushes the
- point.... Igave specific example of one instance where the paper refused and
- the grocery chain cancelled their contract and went to direct advertising
- costing the paper a lot of revenue...
-
- My second observation was that in some countries the gov't had total control,
- in others (Italy) each party is given a channel and there is more variety
- of reporting than found in the U.S., and finally, perspectives and TV
- shots and commentary after the Gulf war was similiar and limited in the U.S.,
- whilw more variety was found in the coverages in Europe...
-
- My final point is that many stories on corporations and the U.S. gov't
- break either in papers on the right (Human Rights magazine, new republic) or
- on the left (Mother Jones, the Nation) and are often never reported by the
- major channels.... often the papers get their tips from those who work
- for the major papers or reporters because their magazine, network etc. are
- too concerned about objections and pressure and loss of revenue or loss of
- access if they broke the story....
-
- I did not use the term conspiracy.... I feel that if the motivation is the
- same, revenue, and the sources are the same (major corporations like GM,
- AT@T, GE and so on) then the results are the same...this accounts for the
- similiarities in what one finds on the networks, be it shows or news or
- commentary.... The smaller papers are purely news organizations and their
- revenue does not come from these sources...
-
- zahir
-