[Am-info] Re: Journalism is dead, long live "the media"

[John J. Urbaniak]

"Glenn T. Livezey, Ph.D." wrote:

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> Now, now, "journalists" paid to skew their prose toward their patron?
> I'm shocked. Since when?

Perhaps my naivete is showing, Glenn, but I was actually surprised to hear
that journalists accepted money from those they were supposed to cover.

Favors, leaks, parties, yes, but I *am* surprised that they got flat-out
payments.  And that the practice was so prevalent.


> The only difference between the bad old days
> and now is that no one seems to think they need to hide their evil
> ways anymore. Corporate does as Corporate is. When the 'media'
> (so few deserve more than the generic title anymore) are wholly owned
> subsidiaries of MEGABUCKS, Inc., unLTD, AND the 'justice' department
> is nothing more than an outsourced legal consultant for the largest
> campaign contributors of the current administration, what do you
> expect? Enron is only different from Microsoft in 3 ways: they are
> in a different phase of the sham 'investigation', the top executives
> may actually have outdone even Bill Gates in pure greed and hubris,
> and Lay & company actually DID "innovate" a new business model,
> complete with extensive rewriting of the law before, during and after
> the crime, as opposed to Gates ignoring the law until after his
> conviction and having it reinterpreted to make him forever immune.
>
> Funny how "W" didn't mention that the "honor" he swore to restore
> to the White House was the "honor" among thieves.

Well, Mr. Clinton did promise "the most ethical administration in
history."  It was Anne Bingaman in 1996(?) who let MS off the hook back
then with the infamous "integrated" clause.

John