Added: Jul 26, 2008
From: ChallengingMedia
Duration: 5:27
http://www.mediaed.orgIf a key indicator of the health of a democracy is the state of its journalism, the United States is in deep trouble. In Rich Media, Poor Democracy, Robert McChesney lays the blame for this state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from delivering on their promises of more choice and more diversity, have organized a system characterized by a lack of competition, homogenization of opinion and formulaic programming.Through numerous examples, McChesney, and media scholar, Mark Crispin Miller, demonstrate how journalism has been compromised by the corporate bosses of conglomerates such as Disney, Sony, Viacom, News Corp, and AOL Time Warner to produce a system of news that is high on sensationalism and low on information. They suggest that unless citizen activism can reclaim the commons, this new corporate system will be characterized by a rich media and an ever impoverished, poor democracy.
Channel: News
Tags: activism critical education educational industry jhally journalism literacy mass mcchesney media mef robert sut
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Bombsquad85 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - By the way: China is a republik too!!!
zombiemaster8825 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Kucinich 2008
kawless5 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - The US is a Plutocracy plain and simple, not a democracy or republic.Corporations have the same rights as a person? WTF kind of shit is that?
mobkillaz Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Nuclear threat fabrications islamo-terror and all that propaganda shit are just made up foes to justify more wars! ALL Political bastards are killing people for wallstreet to get rich and to inflate the economy into a slavery system. All AMERICAN politicians do in life is kill and enslave people and set forests on fire.
sig147 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - you are an idiot
legemmr Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - We are all idiots.. in one dedicated way or another.. :D
eligarf Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - true, all humans are part idiot; but we all have some genius as well.
neothomist1275 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - The United States is a corporation. The United States is not a country. America has no national government.
itsacorporatething Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - There is a nuclear threat: the United States Israel, Russia, India, Pakistan, China. The threat is real but the finger is pointed in the wrong direction.
doford Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - I'm as MAD as Hell and I'm not going to take this anymore! I'm as MAD as HELL and I'm not going to take this anymore! I'm as MAD and HELL and I am NOT going to take the ANYMORE!
JRBeaman Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - If the media is so rich, then why are they promoting democracy? Explaining the disaster that a Democracy can become, Karl Marx, known as the 'Father of Communism' and himself a student of political science, stated: 'Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury and bankrupt the nation.'
Psycarne Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - They aren't promoting democracy. That's the point.
JRBeaman Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Uh, and the title of this video is..... ???
JRBeaman Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Psycarne: "They aren't promoting democracy. That's the point. "Uh you must not be listening to the media. Every day I hear us being described as a "democracy" and "makeing the world safe for democracy." Either you arn't paying attention, or the media has done its job more thoroughly in it's brainwashing of you such that you don't notice the lies any more.
julesrulesny Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - as an american... very well said! Our country is controlled by corporations. the average citizan can donate no more than $2k to a candidate, the average corporation..whatever they want. Which in turns buys media coverage. Why should we believe our media? just b/c we have freedom of speech? Whether from the media itself, or politicians, countless times we find out we've been lied to later. American media is flooded with opinionated broadcasts where the decision has already been made.
julesrulesny Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - America has done some horrible things all in the interests of National Security! Latin America has been destroyed again and again b/c we have gone in there to overthrow governments. Just b/c we are told Chavez is a bad man, we believe it. where's the evidence? Other than him staying in power.Does anyone know that Bush is developing 2 new NUCLEAR weapons?? But, he has the right to say to Iran NOT to develop new weapons? what kind of diplomatic policy is that??? It's disgusting.
julesrulesny Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - America has done some horrible things all in the interests of National Security! Latin America has been destroyed again and again b/c we have gone in there to overthrow governments. Just b/c we are told Chavez is a bad man, we believe it. where's the evidence? Other than him staying in power.Does anyone know that Bush is developing 2 new NUCLEAR weapons?? But, he has the right to say to Iran NOT to develop new weapons? what kind of diplomatic policy is that??? It's disgusting.
julesrulesny Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - America has done some horrible things all in the interests of National Security! Latin America has been destroyed again and again b/c we have gone in there to overthrow governments. Just b/c we are told Chavez is a bad man, we believe it. where's the evidence? Other than him staying in power.Does anyone know that Bush is developing 2 new NUCLEAR weapons?? But, he has the right to say to Iran NOT to develop new weapons? what kind of diplomatic policy is that??? It's disgusting.
vourdou Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - i think that this is bigger than america . i think that pinky and brain finaly had a plan and look like its working.
popecorkyxxiv Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - The mistake most people make is thinking we live in a Democracy, we don't. We live in a Hegemonic Plutocratic Oligarchy, which means, We the People 'choose' which members of the socio/economic elite class rule us. If we lived in a Democracy ANYONE could effectivly run for office, in reality only the top tier has the influence and funds to run. We do not choose WHO we vote for, we select from the options provided. This is not Democracy, it is Oligarchy, we do not rule, for we are ruled.
popecorkyxxiv Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - No form of Representative government is capable of true Democracy, especially in a Free market economy where money talks loader than people. Ruling classism is nearly unavoidable in any governing system, we need to learn to harness that fact to our advantage. A Technocracy for example has a ruling class of the Intellectual elite, a system where those who rule are those who are best suited to do the job, as opposed to those that have the most money/friends.
socalord1 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - The people at the top don't realize is that history will always repeat itself. The people or the very few who say enough is enough are the revolutionaries of the world
SerbDav Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - If you want to increase you current political knowledge check out on youtube the Czech documentary STOLEN KOSOVO for the truth concerning this issue!!! Kosovo je Srbija
oo446611 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - personally i think America should be barred from owning nukes until they get that madman out of office , think the policeman of the world has become the bully of the world overdose of power the cause
Zopre Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - republican yay! same shit with a different name...same ideology as democracy: inflation poverty and cultural anarchy.