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(2,012 posts)You are so right about the corporations. I have been feeling so hopeless about the media, not just tv, but the newspapers which are mostly owned by the right wing corps. We used to have some newspapers that spoke the truth, but in order to survive they have all sold out. Murdoch is now trying to buy the LA Times. But tonite on Democracy Now Amy Goodman was broadcasting from the National Conference on Media Reform meeting in Denver. The independent media hope they can stop the Murdoch and Koch-backed consolidation by getting the truth to more people. The documentary Shadows of Liberty is being shown which explores how corporate control of media has eroded freedom of the press.
Susan Green, editor of the Colorado Independent, was interviewed. She was with the Denver Post a long time and left because they stopped printing any negative stories about their advertisers, big oil, Anshutz etc. One thing we can do is try to read, listen to and support independent media.