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As antagonistic or frivolous as may it appear, it’s not hard for America’s populace to imagine, or even people abroad, that the U.S. mainstream media has often endeavored to influence cultural narratives and talking points. It picks and chooses stories that are most complementary and profitable for its synchronized news networks. It courts celebrities, prominent people, government officials, and politicians and builds on their likenesses.
The media’s predisposition is to investigate people, things, and events on a whim, over a long period of time, or on short notice, whatever suits its best interest. It claims that it pays allegiance to no one or anything except the ethics of journalism. Yet when the U.S. government sought to hold the media accountable for its ethical standards in how it gathers, aggregates, and disseminates the news (as demonstrated in a 2013–14 CIN Study initiative), the media put its tail between its legs and cried foul, and the FCC subsequently succumbed to the media’s whining about shutting the study down (PDF). Fortunately for the global public, the news industry cannot shut down its right to censure it and would have to weather the storm as often as it appeared.
For entrepreneurs, people with the wherewithal, and the world’s populace alike, this is why John’s unorthodox 25 million-dollar idea, “all things STUPID about the news,” building it from the ground up, and where its shareholders, leadership, employees, and services would pay allegiance to no one or anything but following legitimate and reasonable laws for such purposes as to merely censure the media, is so invaluable to the global public.
This may also interest you: John Swinton’s “we are intellectual prostitutes” revelation during an 1880 “meeting of journalists in New York City about the freedom of the press.” | And this, where a guest on Fox 4 News during the CIN Study debate said that he believed the only thing the government should be doing for a newsroom is to “deliver coffee.” Now, how outrageous is that?
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