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Originally posted by Purple How is the news channels and media in your country? In my coountry it totally sucks, they steal vedios from youtube and show it on news prime time to gain viewership.. for them breaking news is of a vedio which shows 'Goat eaiting another Goat kabab! This goat also drinks alchohol and smokes!' And than they will show vedio of this goat for next 30 minutes.. Thats what all the 'news' channel is about in my country.. I heard Taiwan suffers the same fate.. How is it like for the news media in your country? Do you rely on BBC and CNN too to get relevent international news on relevant issues? I cant wait for France to come with its own international news channel!!

And what country are you from??

US is media is mostly owned by a few multinational corporations, so you can pretty much guess how oligarchist is it. Fox News is by far THE WORST. They spin news to fit the neoconservative point of view, and spew out biased reporting and commentary daily. They make a mockery of journalism which is supposed to be objective, non biased, and non-stereotypical.

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Originally posted by Krypton And what country are you from?? US is media is mostly owned by a few multinational corporations, so you can pretty much guess how oligarchist is it. Fox News is by far THE WORST. They spin news to fit the neoconservative point of view, and spew out biased reporting and commentary daily. They make a mockery of journalism which is supposed to be objective, non biased, and non-stereotypical.

Don't watch FauxNews - nobody takes it seriously anymore. PBS (Newshour, Charlie Rose, etc.) are probably the best non-biased source in the country short of getting your news directly from CSPAN.

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Originally posted by Purple I cant wait for France to come with its own international news channel!!

France already has its own international news channel. I think it started sometime in the past year

http://www.france24.com/france24Pub...news/world.html

http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/ar...e.jsp?id=186392

Have obviously BBC (British Broadcasting Company - we pay for it even if you don't watch it) ITN and Channel 4 (the best probably).

Watch EuroNews quite alot too, not much bullshit on that really.

Watched FOX a few times... was so bad it went past funny into pathetic.

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If you can read this, I'm seriously fucking bored.

In my country the media is owned by lobbyists, who in turn own parts of the government.

It's really no different than most other setups: a few people control the outlets to dictate their needs and wants.

We just go about it in a round-a-bout way, which *can* be good for diversity, but has not been for about half a decade or so.

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Originally posted by Krypton And what country are you from?? US is media is mostly owned by a few multinational corporations, so you can pretty much guess how oligarchist is it. Fox News is by far THE WORST. They spin news to fit the neoconservative point of view, and spew out biased reporting and commentary daily. They make a mockery of journalism which is supposed to be objective, non biased, and non-stereotypical.

Yeah, FOX is definitely pretty bad...

Well, they all are, but FOX is the worst.

In my country journalists aren't sent to detention camps if they critize the government

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Originally posted by CHRles In my country journalists aren't sent to detention camps if they critize the government

Awesome, does that give you the right to tell another country not to do this?

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It means that I find the transmissions of the Voice of America, Radio Sawa, BBC World Service, etc. as more credible then the governments that do send their journalists to detention camps.

Next question?

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Originally posted by CHRles It means that I find the transmissions of the Voice of America, Radio Sawa, BBC World Service, etc. as more credible then the governments that do send their journalists to detention camps. Next question?

Obviously..

But you might want to raise your gaurd against our so-called free media...

6 major corps own the majority of all our mass media. That's an AWFULLY small number..

"In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called "alarmist" for pointing this out in his book, The Media Monopoly. In his 4th edition, published in 1992, he wrote "in the U.S., fewer than two dozen of these extraordinary creatures own and operate 90% of the mass media" -- controlling almost all of America's newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, books, records, movies, videos, wire services and photo agencies. He predicted then that eventually this number would fall to about half a dozen companies. This was greeted with skepticism at the time. When the 6th edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 2000, the number had fallen to six. Since then, there have been more mergers and the scope has expanded to include new media like the Internet market. More than 1 in 4 Internet users in the U.S. now log in with AOL Time-Warner, the world's largest media corporation.

In 2004, Bagdikian's revised and expanded book, The New Media Monopoly, shows that only 5 huge corporations -- Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) -- now control most of the media industry in the U.S. General Electric's NBC is a close sixth. "
http://www.corporations.org/media/

Watch as the media consolidate their power slowly year after year..


The Big Five of the Media oligarchy..
Ownership chart of the Big 5

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In 1983 most Americans got their news from 3 main sources on television: NBC, CBS, and ABC.
We have a plethora of options today from your local tv stations, to the big tv networks, to the news networks, to the webcasts of foreign tv networks, to the internet newspages.
Oh, and there's still a "few" traditional newspapers and magazines out there.

Journalism in America may not be up to par with its counterparts in the UK or Germany, but its still light years ahead of most of the world.