Reply #63: No bias, motive, or agenda other than profit [View All]

[LanternWaste]

I honestly don't think the media has any bias, motive, or agenda other than profit. While I understand (and empathize) with moving the media into the "them" camp, I think it's at best naive, and at worst merely disingenuous. Our own mirror image of the right wing vilifying the media for their own political purposes in the mid-nineties, if you will.

While the profit motive may align temporarily align itself with a particular candidate or party, it's nothing more than a marriage of convenience, lasting no longer than the dollar dictates.

They used the sobriquet of "the liberal media", and we countered with our own sobriquet of "main stream media". Two different sides of the same business, I guess...



As an aside...Ben Bagdikian wrote a wonderful book called The Media Monopoly sometimes in the late eighties (reading that was part of my political awakening). It's a very accurate prediction of what was happening to the media and what would happen to the media. I'm surprised that the book isn't talked of more as almost every prediction he made has already happened.