Submitted by C. Bell
"Corporate media giants are abandoning quality journalism, silencing diverse voices, and eliminating local content. It’s time to stand up for better media." Those are the words used at savethenews.org to describe media consolidation. Consolidation in terms of debt is hopefully a great thing but consolidation is often used in the context of companies, jobs or schools consolidation where people will be out of jobs and students sometimes go without much needed academic materials. Seeing as how Americans are said to be greedy and always want more, wouldn't you want more avenues as to how you get your media/news or should I said from whom you receive this information that we carry throughout our lives? Even as a growing child you wanted to form your own opinions and explore the world for yourself, so why let the few people/corporations limit your views? Below is a video to show how and why diversity and opinions in the media, or lack there of, have changed over the years.
Our professor briefly spoke about media in the sense of how we are bombarded with advertisements and other propaganda too many times, in a single day to count. To think its all controlled by about 5 different companies, seems like a lot of work for them but not if they only show you what they want to show you. This video shows who has the control, gives an easy description with lots of graphics on how things have changed, and why we should want to stand up against "Big Media". This is exactly an example of non material culture being resistant to change because even though our patterns of communication have changed but I'm not sure if its for the better.
This is a subject that I am personally concerned about because I like to know the full story or big picture in all things, especially when its handed out for all to see. For the people who would like more in depth information about "Big Media" and media consolidation follow this link http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main. All comments, beliefs, and ideas are welcome.
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ReplyDeleteAmanda Marshall
I definitely agree with your posts, Big Media has had a huge affect on our society. It seems most are in dire need of entertainment versus keeping updated on actual coverage. Our world is surrounded by advertisements, commercials, celebrity gossip: fall outs, breakups, and of course, receives a lot of attentions. If a headline said "Pacific ocean polluted by toxic waste" or "Obama to change (blank) law." It will be just be one of those responses like "Oh, that's great" or "Great, more problems." Everyone has their own opinions on things and I think when we get to look into another person's life, we get excited because they're such important people and we feel the need to know things about them. Our country will never be perfect, some go green, some talk about it rather than do it. Other companies have been dropped and I've realized that some people don't really care about what's happening around them- with the economy or people around them. I'm curious to know when did the non-caring act and obsessed with entertainment era began.
Great! The meadia will make or break you. It turns the whole picture around giving others a different perspective. We all see things from a lloking glass and miss the bigger picture.
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