The Media's Pivotal Role.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

The media played a huge role in the public's passive acceptance of the Nazi rise to power. Perhaps it could have been stopped at an early stage if public awareness had been their crucial priority.

The US media helped to create this epidemic of disinformation. There is no presence of ethical evaluation in present news. There is no ranking of the serious above the ridiculous. Outrageous lies are presented alongside intelligent opinion as equally valid. Currently, the Flying Monkeys Media refuse to acknowledge the effect they have on the public, though they know their impact full well. Or knew it, before news became a subsidiary of the networks' entertainment/marketing departments.

But they could open their eyes, see what they are nurturing and change their pandering. They still have that choice.

The idiots WILL keep escalating until Authority steps in.

It may not be too late for that Authority to step in as the media's Voice of Authority, to accurately reflect and denounce the ignorance and hate. They could in that way contribute to a revolution of informed reason.

Or, they could continue as they are, abdicating their responsibility and allowing the anarchy of the herd, fearful and starved for facts.

They could continue to nurse the corporate interests, mistaking professionalism for pseudo impartiality and choosing simplistic sensationalism in the name of ratings. Then, when their "fair and balanced" false equivalence results in the inevitable, they will report the tragedy with no confession of the tragic irony that it was they who kept the conflagration well stoked.

There. I changed the subject line. People were getting distracted and missing the point.

[BlooInBloo]

1. No.

This has been another episode of Simple Answers To Simple Questions.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

2. The wording in the subject line may seem simple

at first glance, but it's a big ethical question, maybe the biggest ethical question the media needs to face up to about itself.

I don't think there's anything simple about it.

[Skittles]

3. like asking if corporate executives will do the right thing

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. rhetorical question

I changed the subject line. I was trying to make an ethics point, but that title totally threw it offtrack.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. People forget the role of Father Coughlin in the US of the 1930s

and why we had the rise of the Fairness Act. We no longer have a Fairness Act, and we have many Father Coughlins so hopeful no. the media, the MSM will continue to do whatever brings money.

You honestly believe GE or Disney will want a fair presentation of the news by the way?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. it was a rhetorical question

seems the subject line totally derailed the point.

Guess I need better marketing. :eyes: