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The Ten Best Movies About Journalism by Farr
In the wake of the revered Walter Cronkite's passing, I've attempted to isolate the ten best movies about journalism.
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Mainstream media pure darkness -- Why make it so complicated?
News is a window into reality, unless of course its mainstream news then its a window into fiction, fantasy and fairy tales.
New light that brings us new freedom, or new darkness reinforcing slavery, that is issue when someone offers us what they call news.
We never know what mainstream news is going to hit us with next, but we know it will be new darkness and that we must turn to those with some new light that will force such darkness to give way.
Problem is, our indifferent majority feels it deserves more and with a clear conscience desires only to take more, and any new light that impresses a need to give they reject with a vengeance.
So a law that will bring such a maddening crowd out the darkness they so love -- lots of luck.
That back in the infancy of the broadcast industry, chaos reigned. Different overlapping frequencies, large stations drowning out others across the nation, etc. It wasn't until the government mandated clear rules that broadcasters were able to operate intelligently and compete fairly. Some of those rules required broadcasters to devote a certain percentage of their schedule to public affairs and news programming, as part of their obligation to serve the public.
For many years, radio and TV stations provided news and public information programming as a public service. They felt this civic responsibility keenly. It wasn't until the profit motive kicked in and deregulation was enacted that news began it's long slow slide into stupidity, chasing ratings via senstationalism. Funding was cut, real substantive stories were discarded in favor of attention-grabbing cheap news.
Sometimes we need to operate freely, innovatively. Sometimes we need to follow the rules for the good of all. In this case, we need a return to civic responsibility over profits in the areas of news and public service broadcasting. Let them continue to play 'Big Brother' and all that other crap if they want, if it makes money. But when it comes to news, the highest, indeed the only imperative should be accuracy, truth and service to the public interest. Profit motives should just be removed from the news.
The news people need to hear is give-give-give, but our self-absorbed majority feels they deserve more and only want to take-take-take. Give it up, its a hopeless cause.
Complex yet simple, most perported journalists today are not journalists but gotcha sensationalists. Journalists are people who seek the truth not report wild lies as if its the truth because it causes sensational response by duped people.
Of course! Rather is a real journalist who, at least atttempted, to the detriment of his careeer, ousted by the cowards that be at CBS, has kept up the good fight.!
Kurtz is part of the problem; and, he has a lot of company.
Great column, Josh. It's particularly critical to remind people that public policy in the U.S. has shaped the media since the days when Samuel Morse got a government grant to demo that new telegraph thing.
The radio, TV, and cable industries were strongly influenced by government policies . . . usually prodded by industry lobbyists who have learned to cloak their self-interested agendas in the language of "the public interest."
If today's media institutions are failing in their responsibilities to foster and promote democratic self-government - - and they most certainly are - - a national commission is a great place to start a national dialog about what needs to be done differently. Such a dialog must start with an accurate understanding of the history of government policy making in media and communications, and Howard Kurtz has clearly demonstrated that he doesn't have knowledge or integrity to contribute much to that dialog.
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