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Mickey Z
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Monday, June 13, 2005
What's so public about public broadcasting?
The Progressive Blogger Union (http://www.pbu.blogspot.com) topic this week is: “Proposed Funding Cuts to the Corporation of Public Broadcasting.”
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this issue is how so many Americans have been conditioned to perceive PBS--and almost all media, for that matter--as “liberal” and thus, the whole fiasco magically gets framed as Republican vs. Democrat.
Whether you label them liberal or conservative, most major media outlets are large corporations owned by or aligned with even larger corporations, and they share a common goal: to make a profit by selling a product (an affluent audience) to a given market (advertisers). Therefore, we shouldn’t find it too shocking that the image of the world being presented by a corporate-owned or -funded press very much reflects the biased interests of the elite players involved in this sordid little love triangle.
Two ideas to consider:
1. The media (even when called “public") are as liberal as the corporations that own or fund them.
2. There is one primary difference between Republicans and Democrats: they tell different lies to get elected.
(This post is presented in solidarity with the Progressive Blogger Union. For more information, please visit: http://www.pbu.blogspot.com.)
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