corporate interest
Posted on November 27, 2007
Filed Under politics |
Posted in response to:
http://www.chrisdellavedova.com/2007/11/26/the-objective-media/
My comments are a little over the top maybe, but it does get tiresome to see corporations with no human conscience having such a huge effect on media and law and culture. Here's the post:
Oh but they are being objective. Media enterprises just have us fooled about what that means. Every day, they objectively analyze revenue sources and select content to maximize dollars per square inch of page space, or per minute of listening/watching. Subjective considerations such as ethics rarely enter the equation (in fact, they must be eliminated, by definition). What better way to be objective than to disregard qualitative analysis for quantitative (measured in $$). That must be the reasoning.
If you’re worried about what Wal-Mart’s (or whoever’s) marketing department is paying a media outlet to do, just imagine the relationship between their lobbyists and our politicians. Only the fact that there are so many interests within such a complicated system saves us from domination.
I needed to get my daily paranoia out of the way, thanks.
Hi, thanks for your comments - depressing as the may be. I don’t think you are paranoid I just think we’re veering toward a state in which corporations run things implicitly, if not explicitly. Joy.