Can business and/or political interests negatively affect investigative journalism,
by sheltering some from inhospitable exposure
while simultaneously disparaging or technologically ignoring opponents?
Why would the news industry
want elections to appear to be closer than they are?
The partisan, when engaged in a dispute,
cares nothing about the rights of the question,
but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
Plato
If what some think isn’t what you do, and what “they” say sounds relatively better,
could it be easier to believe what “they” think, even if it might not be true?
If some financial estimates and hypothetical illustrations
assume perpetual levels of varying data, can some information be manipulated,
and if so, why would most for profit press not want to report the innacuracies?
If they can get you asking the wrong questions,
they don't have to worry about answers.
Thomas Pynchon
Can some come to irrational conclusions to justify erroneous assumptions?
Could a moment when most understand what few knew
be more important than the first discovery?
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Is the delivery of consumers to merchants
the objective of for-profit media?
Should some information outlets that don’t,disclose relevant conflicts of interest
like advertizing revenue
from the pharmacutical, educational, staples, military and healthcare industries?
It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
If a few multinational corporations
own an overwhelming majority of newspapers, magazines, news channels,
radio stations, book publishers and business information sources,
what are the chances of an investigative journalist
publishing a negative story on a sister subsidiary,
or on a subsidiary of another company that could retaliate in kind?
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind
as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe,
he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
Thomas Paine
1 comment:
George— to be completely honest with you, you send us so many links to your blog with such frequency that I stopped reading it. I would assume that most reporters are incredibly busy — if you (or anyone) want the press to cover something, I recommend doing the following:
1. Send us an actual press release, usually half a page and no more than one page.
2. Give us a call.
3. Reduce the amount of material you send us. It's unreasonable to expect the media to go through everything you write while still performing our jobs and reading and responding to other people.
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