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You mean Murdoch media? You think they have any credibility left, after the Bush years ? Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
And do you have precise figures for the supposed decline of influence of same?
What would precise figures on the influence of Murdoch's media consist of?
Anything from statistics to more ample research...
What "supposed decline of influence" do you refer to? I was looking for data because it is not possible to assess the situation without them.
Our democracy as is, is not quite under the rule of a few media barons, yet which is why all tools of democratic participation and legal means to watch over/control power should be used. It is better to concentrate on our freedoms/rights and that we use them wisely instead of pointing to glossy magazines that everyone is free to shun...
"If you cannot say 'no' [to the propaganda the media is feeding us], you won't be able to say 'yes' to greater things." (unknown)
It is also bad but they haven't engaged in any medium or large scale arrests and killings, yet.
... of white people.
That aside, you're quite correct that comparing the current Western European press to the Pravda is - with a few notable exceptions - a gross injustice to the Western European press. The problem is that things are going in the wrong direction, vis-a-vis concentration of media power, and the argument is that if something is not done to curb this trend, we will end up with a press that is, if not entirely Pravdafied, then at least Berlusconified, which is bad enough.
