On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:17:04 -0400, Jose
wrote in :

If you don't like what you choose to watch, turn off the TV.
And what of the news you'd like to watch, but because it may have a
negative impact on the news media's parent company, it isn't reported?

Then watch the news on a different channel.

Actually, the problem isn't so much that the news reporting is
"controlled" by media companies, but rather, that news reporting is
under the entertainment division and not the journalism division.

Actually, the problem is that the communications industry is
controlled by only a handful of large corporations, and thus what gets
reported must not taint the image of any of their holdings.

Who wants to watch real news and actually analyze current events? Yes,
those kinds of people are in the minority. Most people =prefer= to
watch a white SUV drive down the highway.

=That= is the problem. It is us, collectively, who decide what is
profitable to the media companies.

Please explain how the audience can decide on having news of which
they are unaware reported.

I agree that in doing so, we are
handing over the keys to our brains, and at some point it will be too
late.

That point has arrived.

But the power was not siezed by them, it was given to them.

Actually both are true.

Whoever the "them" turns out to be.

Rupert Murdock, Sony, ClearChannel, TimeWarner, ...