Corporate bias: Was Re: [CLUE-Talk] "Liberal" media?

[Kevin Cullis]

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 11:03, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> 
> In short, I don't buy it. The influence of any one journalist's personal
> agenda is a drop in the bucket next to the influence of corporate
> control that dictates what will and won't be covered -- much less the
> spin that may or may not be put on the issues. The influence of all
> journalists' personal agendas would tend to cancel out the biases of the
> other journalists, at least so long as people seek news from multiple
> sources.

How about reading this:

Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are
Undermining America
by Arianna Huffington

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400047714/qid=1058549864/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-8861461-7610505

I'll go to B&N this weekend and read what she says.

Kevin