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[snip]President John F. Kennedy once privately remarked that when the government and the media are in bed together, the public is probably getting screwed.[/snip]
IN THREE MINUTES
By: Frank G. McGuire
Editor/Publisher, Security Intelligence Sourcebook
Former Instructor in News Media at FBI Academy
CBS News Consultant on Terrorism and Air Disasters
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-- Critt Jarvis (critt@critt.com), October 14, 1999
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEWS MEDIA ...
IN THREE MINUTES
-- Critt Jarvis (critt@critt.com), October 14, 1999.
Gee, I sure hope they are using protection.
-- R (riversoma@aol.com), October 14, 1999.
Yes, we wouldn't want AIDS to spread all over the country!!!!!!!!!!!
-- Culy~Q (Curly@Q.com), October 14, 1999.
very nice...
-- argh (argh@nowhere.com), October 14, 1999.
Good one Critt!...Here is an endless-loop list I created to use at the FBI Academy...
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Commercial news media are corporations.
Corporations run on money.
Money is generated by advertising.
Advertising is priced by the size of the audience.
Audiences are attracted by drama (often a code word for violence) and sex.
Audience-size is measured by ratings.
Competition for ratings tells top editors where to send reporters & what to cover.
Senior editors are management, reporters are not.
Management has the job of making a corporation profitable.
Profits keep a corporation in existence.
Corporations are responsible to their profit-oriented stockholders.
Stockholders buy stock in corporations, not in any ideology.
Go to the top of the list and start over.
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Policy decisions are not made at media conglomerates by the reporter whose face is on the screen or whose byline is on the page. That reporter might well be a liberal, but he/she has no more decisionmaking authority than a police officer has over departmental policy.
Policy decisions are made by people who are on the financial side of the corporation, not the editorial side. The financial side runs the show.
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-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), October 14, 1999.
Interesting you bring this up, Critt...Watching PBS last night re: photography in this century
Without being specific, the script pointed out that during our world wars the photographers were not allowed to take any pictures of dead American Soldiers. This was (obviously) suspended during Vietnam.
We can't handle the truth.. or is it the powers that be that can't handle the truth...???
Keep the faith and HOLD ON!!
-- booann (cantsay@lovemyjob.edu), October 14, 1999.
Booann,
I saw that program, too.
That's probably what got me on this track today...
-- Critt Jarvis (critt@critt.com), October 14, 1999.
Okay - here is specific evidence to show that - regardless of the national media's "corporate ownership wants only profits" theory - the people (reporters, anchors, writers, and producers) who choose what to say - and how to report what they choose to say - are specifically and deliberately biased towards the Clintons' administrations goals:<
Several journalistic practices are sending a clear signal that Republicans are disobeying media wishes on health legislation. Begin with the almost automatic recitation of the liberal term for their litigation scheme: "the patients' bill of rights." Few reports have even placed "so-called" in front of it. These same media outlets ignore conservative terms (for example, "partial-birth abortion" becomes "a certain type of late-term abortion," or on rare occasions is preceded by "what opponents call").
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-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), October 15, 1999.