[opendtv] Re: Chairman Copps to Silicon Valley
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:10:26 -0400
At 5:17 PM -0500 6/10/10, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-298708A1.pdf
Another argument he makes is about how the news media have been
decimated. Quoting:
"Newsrooms have been shuttered, reporters taken off the beat and
fired, and investigative journalism put on the endangered species
list. Some try to tell us this is the natural result of changes in
technology and markets, but the facts tell another story. Truth be
told, in the case of traditional media, whether newspapers or
broadcasting, it was bad choices by the private sector (through
heedless consolidation that saddled companies with unmanageable
debt) and even worse choices by government (through the FCC's
evisceration of the public interest protections that had undergirded
the country's media landscape) that visited such harm on the
American people, on our democracy and, ironically, on even the media
companies themselves."
Seems hard to believe. These media are being eviscerated by loss of
consumer interest, if anything, and universal broadband access can
only accelerate that process.
I tend to agree with Bert on this one. I'm not sure it is just a case
of losing interest.
Without getting too political, I believe it has a great deal to do
with a loss in credibility and confidence that the traditional media
are actually reporting the news. Too often it seems these days that
the media is in the business of "making the news..."
Regards
Craig
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