Has Katrina saved US media? - BBC Commentary

[Hoping4Change]

This is a great piece. Apologies if its already been posted.


snip

Amidst the horror, American broadcast journalism just might have grown its spine back, thanks to Katrina.

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Giant corporations own the networks, and Washington politicians rely on them and their executives to fund their re-election campaigns across the 50 states. It is a perfect recipe for a timid and self-censoring journalistic culture that is no match for the masterfully aggressive spin-surgeons of the Bush administration.

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'Lies or ignorance'

But last week the complacency stopped, and the moral indignation against inadequate government began to flow, from slick anchors who spend most of their time glued to desks in New York and Washington.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4214516.stm

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Good catch (great article). Already posted on Greatest Threads page

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4640022

[tom_paine]

2. No, nothing can save Corporate TV Pravda

It was only because the Reality of Katrina, and of Amerika's Third-World response (how else COULD a Third-World Nation respond, anyway?) was enough to BRIEFLY override the NewSpeak False Bushevik Reality which has been with us 24/7 since 1993 and maybe before.

BRIEFLY.

Wait for it. As the waters recede from The Imperial Province of Louisiana, so will any thought that the Imperial Amerikan Media has been "saved" or altered in the slightest way.

Don't shoot the messenger.

[bemildred]

3. Scared shitless is not the same thing as saved.

They are still bought and paid for whores, and
will remain so as long as they are all the property
of a few corporations.

[Hekate]

4. It remains to be seen

After almost a week of real journalism I was sickened when I checked into CNN today and caught some little newschick standing in the rubble repeating the Bush party line. She kept nodding her head as if to affirm the gravitas of their lies.

So...it remains to be seen.

Hekate

#Why won't the Chickenhawk cross the road?#
#Why won't the Chickenhawk be waitin' on the levee?#