Statements: Do you agree or disagree?

 Do you agree or disagree with the following statements:

>> Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

>> Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

>> The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole machine out there, an organized attempt to accuse them of bias whenever they say anything that the Right or the Left doesn't like.

So rather than really try to report things objectively, they settle for being even-handed, which is not the same thing.

>> The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover and keeping us in a uproar.

>>  You already have one real information: You are being deceived by the people you are governed! This is an enough information for you!

>> All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.


 

Conclusion remarks

>> CBC Must Abandon Ads And Find New Sources Of Funding

Solutions: How to fix the problem

"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's going to get." 


- Ian Williams Goddard 

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Seymour Hersh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh

Seymour Hersh explains how to fix journalism, saying press should 'fire 90% of editors and promote ones you can't control'


close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider.

He is angry about the timidity of journalists in America, their failure to challenge the White House and be an unpopular messenger of truth.

Read more...

Noam Chomsky has advocated that citizens undertake a "course of intellectual self-defence'' to arm themselves against the one-sided view of the world that is presented to them through the media.

Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.

The problem with Journalism

"If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly" 

Thomas Sowell



As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
 

CBC in trouble

CBC in fiscal trouble.
                  Do you want to save CBC ? 

Media Concentration

Diversity of media ownership is literally non-existent in Canada, according to a recent post by the Canadian Media Concentration Research Project (CMCRP). 

Growth and Concentration Trends in the French-language Media Economy in Canada, 2000-2014

Growth and Concentration Trends in the English-language Network Media Economy in Canada, 2000-2014

CMCR Project Releases Entire Data Set Under Creative Commons License

Media and Internet Concentration in Canada Report, 1984 – 2014

The Growth of the Network Media Economy in Canada, 1984-2014

Survey

Where do you turn for political news?

Where do you get your news about politics and government?

>> Newspapers
>> Radio
>> TV
>> Social media


Mainstream News (MSN)

>> Do you trust MSN?
>> Do you distrust MSN?


How often do you talk about politics with your friends and family?

How many times per week?

Name your news sources


[ simply put your age when answering to this survey ]

Mini Blogs Series - Journalism

Part 1 --- Survey

Part 2 --- Media Concentration

Part 3 --- CBC in fiscal trouble.
                  Do you want to save CBC ? 


Part 4 --- The problem with Journalism.

Part 5 --- Solutions: How to fix the problem.

Extra :

Part 6 --- Conclusion remarks.

Part 7 -- Statements: Do you agree or disagree?

How can we save Canadian Journalism

Americans share the same problem.

In their 2010 book The Death and Life of American Journalism, Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols argue that compromises and corruption are destroying American journalism's "old order." That we have to "grab what is good and necessary from the crumbling edifice ... and raise it up on a new platform."

"The era of commercial news media is ending and a new system of independent journalism must be created and subsidized by the public if democracy is to survive and prosper."

Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols are dedicated to the transformative, democratizing power of journalism not as it is, but as it should be