本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛PART 7 --- MANIPULATING THE MEDIA
For 38 years, the Federal Communications Commission had enforced the Fairness Doctrine, which mandated that all broadcasts over public airwaves offer a balance of viewpoints.
In 1987,Ronald Reagan stopped enforcement of the Fairness Doctrine, opening the floodgates for corporate money to talk directly to America through the media.
Former Fellow, The Heritage Foundation : David Brock
A few years ago studies were showing that of the 350 top radio markets in the country, you had something like 90% of right wing talk, and less than 10% of progressive talk.
Crandall:
Media deregulation is a big story. I think it's threat to democracy.
Most people don't have any idea what's going on.
Narrator:
After his 1992 election, Democratic President Bill Clinton continued to implement key elements of both the Powell Memo and the Heritage Foundation's prescriptions for government by and for big business.
In 1996,Clinton signed the first major overhaul of telecommunications law in 62 years.
1983: 50 major media companies
2011: 6 major media companies
Crandall:
What Rupert Murdoch thinks is more likely to be what you think than anything else.
David Brock:
They missed major stories, we know they missed major stories.
And that is all coming home to roost now.
I think the media is awful.
They don't do in-depth reporting, they distort the news story to show the most confrontational headline, they don't do in-depth news gathering.
Bush (2003):
Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminium tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist David Cay Johnston
Twenty years ago, nobody who was in journalism thought anything of saying to a politician to his face,"Senator, stop lying to the Los Angeles Times.","General, you know that's not true, I know that's not true."
Today ,if you said something like that, you'd be fired.
We don't ask tough questions, and we have these orchestrated White House press conferences.
And Obama is actually worse than his predecessor George Bush on this issue.
If you take your financial advice from CNBC, you're gonna to broke.
You don't get the information you need, and you're pretty much on your own.
The same thing that's happened in business has happened in broadcasting.
It's just completely profit driven.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
For 38 years, the Federal Communications Commission had enforced the Fairness Doctrine, which mandated that all broadcasts over public airwaves offer a balance of viewpoints.
In 1987,Ronald Reagan stopped enforcement of the Fairness Doctrine, opening the floodgates for corporate money to talk directly to America through the media.
Former Fellow, The Heritage Foundation : David Brock
A few years ago studies were showing that of the 350 top radio markets in the country, you had something like 90% of right wing talk, and less than 10% of progressive talk.
Crandall:
Media deregulation is a big story. I think it's threat to democracy.
Most people don't have any idea what's going on.
Narrator:
After his 1992 election, Democratic President Bill Clinton continued to implement key elements of both the Powell Memo and the Heritage Foundation's prescriptions for government by and for big business.
In 1996,Clinton signed the first major overhaul of telecommunications law in 62 years.
1983: 50 major media companies
2011: 6 major media companies
Crandall:
What Rupert Murdoch thinks is more likely to be what you think than anything else.
David Brock:
They missed major stories, we know they missed major stories.
And that is all coming home to roost now.
I think the media is awful.
They don't do in-depth reporting, they distort the news story to show the most confrontational headline, they don't do in-depth news gathering.
Bush (2003):
Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminium tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist David Cay Johnston
Twenty years ago, nobody who was in journalism thought anything of saying to a politician to his face,"Senator, stop lying to the Los Angeles Times.","General, you know that's not true, I know that's not true."
Today ,if you said something like that, you'd be fired.
We don't ask tough questions, and we have these orchestrated White House press conferences.
And Obama is actually worse than his predecessor George Bush on this issue.
If you take your financial advice from CNBC, you're gonna to broke.
You don't get the information you need, and you're pretty much on your own.
The same thing that's happened in business has happened in broadcasting.
It's just completely profit driven.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net