KP View (3/7/2010): The Quest For "Truth"
As a new media practitoner, I believe in free media and the free discourse of information. I also think that it is absolutely vital for us who have decided to take up this mantle to act responsibly. This is ever more so as we go through this spectre of change that continues to be as unprecendented as ever.
Cable News Networks have grown into a publiclity machine for lobbyists and Public Relations Consultants. What they regard as being "the truth" is not necessarily the case. All the majors are run by multinational conglomartes who have only thing in mind: profits. The Media Barons get very nervous when someone rises to challenge them. Fox and its' parent, News Corp, gets away with quite a bit becasue it has a loyal following who seem to think that whatever Fox and its' stars say is gospel. There is a war going on--the war for the real truth that no ones seems to want to accept.
The bigger challenge is how the media is actually dealing with the profound questions of the day. Aaron Brown, the Ex-CNN Anchor who was fired by CNN in 2006, noted that it is a lot cheaper to put up so-called "experts" to fill the time rather than send someone to Afghanistan to actually pound the pavement to figure it all out.
Cable News Networks have grown into a publiclity machine for lobbyists and Public Relations Consultants. What they regard as being "the truth" is not necessarily the case. All the majors are run by multinational conglomartes who have only thing in mind: profits. The Media Barons get very nervous when someone rises to challenge them. Fox and its' parent, News Corp, gets away with quite a bit becasue it has a loyal following who seem to think that whatever Fox and its' stars say is gospel. There is a war going on--the war for the real truth that no ones seems to want to accept.
The bigger challenge is how the media is actually dealing with the profound questions of the day. Aaron Brown, the Ex-CNN Anchor who was fired by CNN in 2006, noted that it is a lot cheaper to put up so-called "experts" to fill the time rather than send someone to Afghanistan to actually pound the pavement to figure it all out.
Mike Pouraryan
