"Big Media Won't Bring Good Things to Life"

From the Denver Post, October 24, 2006:

It controls the news you watch, which has become kinder and gentler to government and corporations, while focusing on sex scandals, manhunts, and the big crime story of the day.

That's the mantra of media giants, who are more concerned with profits than educating viewers. GE, just like Disney and Time Warner, are monsters with insatiable appetites. They want to control more media and would if there weren't Federal Communications Commission rules prohibiting big media from getting bigger.

All that could change if the FCC has its way this winter and allows corporations to own more media outlets in the same city.

The writer, Cindy Rodriguez, brings in a lot of examples of how corporate-controlled newsrooms fill the airwaves with useless news stories which they tend to run into the ground. Interesting op-ed piece from a major newspaper.