Akenaton,

I have an alternative view.

The purpose of the "corporate media" in this country is to sell soap.

The purpose of the public media is to get donations.

The purpose of "state media" in Canada, Australia and Britain, at least is to attract enough eyeballs to justify their government subsidies.

People sit in front of their TVs and vote for the news they want with their remote controls. Do you think that someone who owns a gas station, or for that matter, drives a car, wants to hear about "carbon pollution" all day?

Do you think that an American, tired of war, wants to be reminded of what is happening in Syria?

A person who learned about Moses and Joshua in Sunday school, might change the channel when news of Gaza is presented as negative to Israel.

The media is telling us what we want to hear. End of story.


Except media is expanding to the point where smaller and smaller niches are tuning into the news they want to hear.

Here is a US media outlet that appears on many radio stations and some Cable/internet TV services in the USA. Amy Goodwin's politics, I think, are a lot like yours. Perhaps you would like to donate so that she can be seen more widely. If you don't, at least you can get your news from a point of view that does not recognize any of the differences between political parties in the G7.

http://www.democracynow.org/