If the media becomes more and more concentrated in the hands of a small number of corporations, as has been happening in my country, I think there are about 4 corporations that dominate about 80 or 90% of the media, then the media is going to become more and more of a tool of profit maximization and political manipulation as I think is happening. If you can break up the media, and that's the great hope of the internet, is that it's going to be common property and provide a direct way for individuals to communicate without going through the filter of the corporate interests in order to get on the air. So I have a lot of hope in the Internet as a kind of replacement for mass media, which has become dominated by a small number of corporations.
08.05.2007,
i agree in the sense that a hegemony exists in western societies especially when it comes to commercial 'mass media' but it really doesnt help when so called intellectual news/media sources perpetuate certain aspects of mass media by adhering to the colloquial dumbed down terminology they use. Sound-bites, euphemisms. Lazy journalism exists everywhere and it exists even more so in the internet. Which is why handheld media will still live on. But a counteraction is defiantly needed. Governments should not even acknowledge low brow media giving it SUCH a leverage for political potency as is now. Its really horrendous. But if governments actually did what was best for the people and not masquerade under the veil of apparent democracy, when Britain
heardism, 06.01.2008 19:02:19
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