naughtYmike
08-21-2006, 11:15 AM
A Perspective On The Corporate Controlled Media
I have often said to myself, ?She is just doing her job. She has to be pro-Bush in order to keep her job at Time Warner.?
I have also often said to myself, ?I can?t wait until the day some attorney general indicts her whole news organization on the charge of treason.? Okay, I admit it: in this case, I?m usually shouting at the TV when I say it.
Which ever the case, the ethical balance (once known as the liberal bias) of news reporting has had its we-the-people-oriented priorities and goals replaced by the goals and priorities of corporations.
Were it not for bloggers and the internet, I hate to think how much worse off we (the people) would be.
SCHRODINGER'S CAT, SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES, AND MODERM AMERICAN JOURNALISM
Media Matters; by Marcia Kuntz and Paul Waldman
08/18/2006
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(excerpt 1)
We were reminded of the potential effect of Schr?dinger's principle this week. The nature of journalism is such that by casting their gaze upon an event, the news media almost inevitably influence how that event proceeds. By telling us what public opinion is, they influence how we think about our own beliefs and the place they hold among our fellow citizens.
And by telling us what is going to happen, they often make the very course of events they are predicting more likely.
(points of discussion excerpts)
Problem 1: The prediction/assertion can be self-fulfilling
Problem 2: The prediction/assertion is made possible by bad or no reporting
Problem 3: The prediction/assertion is apparently wrong
I have often said to myself, ?She is just doing her job. She has to be pro-Bush in order to keep her job at Time Warner.?
I have also often said to myself, ?I can?t wait until the day some attorney general indicts her whole news organization on the charge of treason.? Okay, I admit it: in this case, I?m usually shouting at the TV when I say it.
Which ever the case, the ethical balance (once known as the liberal bias) of news reporting has had its we-the-people-oriented priorities and goals replaced by the goals and priorities of corporations.
Were it not for bloggers and the internet, I hate to think how much worse off we (the people) would be.
SCHRODINGER'S CAT, SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES, AND MODERM AMERICAN JOURNALISM
Media Matters; by Marcia Kuntz and Paul Waldman
08/18/2006
[Only registered and activated users can see links] ([Only registered and activated users can see links])
(excerpt 1)
We were reminded of the potential effect of Schr?dinger's principle this week. The nature of journalism is such that by casting their gaze upon an event, the news media almost inevitably influence how that event proceeds. By telling us what public opinion is, they influence how we think about our own beliefs and the place they hold among our fellow citizens.
And by telling us what is going to happen, they often make the very course of events they are predicting more likely.
(points of discussion excerpts)
Problem 1: The prediction/assertion can be self-fulfilling
Problem 2: The prediction/assertion is made possible by bad or no reporting
Problem 3: The prediction/assertion is apparently wrong