Monday, January 15, 2007

Corporate Media Malfeasance:


There are, basically, three groups of people who stand responsible for the current national nightmare. The news media is certainly one of them!

The other two are: The administration and their enablers in Congress.

Corporate Media Malfeasance: A BuzzFlash Update from the Memphis Media Reform Conference -- Part II BuzzFlash:

It is now estimated that more than 3500 people attended the 2007 Conference for Media Reform in Memphis, Tennessee, January 12-14.

Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated not far from the Memphis Conference Center where the conference is finishing up.

It was noted by more than one speaker that the Civil Rights Movement – and the protests against the Vietnam War – might not have succeeded if the media had not transmitted the horrible images and stories from those two tumultuous clashes.

But now we have a corporate media that censors images of death in Iraq because they might make the viewers squeamish and change the channel. More likely, we cannot even see our war dead or dead Iraqis because the corporate media has put too much money on Bush to risk the wrath of Junior, Cheney and Rove. We rarely see a burial of a fallen GI or a grieving family. That’s 'too real' for the corporate news.

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