The Media In America Today

Is there really a liberal media? The answer can be found by comparing different news sources from around the world. All media in America is owned by five corporations and for that we can thank Michael Powell (see The Big Media Hall of Shame) , recently resigned commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. Deregulation afforded few moguls to own all of our media. And the real question to think about is 'Was this a plan allowed and designed by members in the top levels of government to advance and proceed with their own agenda?'

From my own days of being schooled in journalism, at a university in Maryland, it is startling to see every rule of journalism I was ever taught blatantly broken. We were taught to strive for objectivity, write the story as it actually happened, but we were especially avoid the utilization of emotionally charged words such as "whiney", "complaining" or "radical."

Now it seems that those in charge of the media, and I do mean ALL of it, strive for the emotionally charged, the conflicting, and the sensational. Sadly, our media does sway public opinion and it seems that those who own the media now use it for exactly that, rather than to inform or educate. The public has become so descencitized to what is real as opposed to "reality" television. Words such as liberal and conservative are used frequently in a derrogatory manner and the media seems to have purposefully even redefined the true meanings of these words. And the majority of the public has been willfully lead or mislead, as the case may be.