Who (has) damaged journalism most?

I probably should have added an "ever" at the end of the subject line, but a) it sounded funny and b) most means most and so covers "ever".

You know, I have a shrewd idea who's going to win this thing?

between Murdoch, Ailes and Novak. I voted for Murdoch because of how much he OWNS. He has what? 120 newspapers across the world and he hires ONLY repubs to work them. Then throw in his TV networks and radio? and he's a real danger.

...and if not him specifically, the whole "A Current Affair"-style "journalism" that became so popular, and indeed I think gave birth to Faux.

Some of us on the left noticed they were putting together cartels of rich businessmen and buying up newspapers, radio stations, TV outlets and magazines. The result is that we now have just six corporations owning the major media in this country. There are few independent radio stations and fewer independent newspapers left.

This is why we get sanitized, corporatized McNews, McMusic and McEntertainment, and this is the reason journalism is all but dead as a profession. One is expected to sit at one's desk and wait for press releases. That is the news one is permitted to report.

Need I say more? Ok, I will :P...Murdoch took his cues from Skaife and his American Spectator, his funding of Limbaugh, Newsmax, WorldNutDaily...all money losers, but funded so they can make a lot of noise.

I just blanked on him, but he certainly is another world-class shitweasel.

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but decided there's a slight but important difference between "making it possible" and "ruining it":)

no-conscience bastard, this goes without saying. But Novak uses his clout to promote lie on top of lie, outed a CIA operative, goes on television and promotes his one-sided neoconservative crap, and does it with complete immunity. He feels he is above the law, above the rules that are supposed to guide journalists, and thinks he's some kind of God who is now passing on to us his own revises version of the Commandments, that we are all to worship at his feet as he spews in blatantly facist crap.

Novak is a dangerous man. He is like bush* & Co. Totally without conscience and without the ability to think thirty seconds into the future. He's been around too long, and the propaganda line that he spews out has been a horrible influence because people see the name 'Robert Novak' and they mistakenly think that they are reading the words of some great intellectual who is imparting the words of reality and wisdom. But he is just promoting his own agenda and that of this corrupt regime.

..into a production line of propaganda.

You have to include Stephen Glass too. Just watched "Shattered Glass" a few weeks ago. That kid was fucked up.

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And the entire cast seemed to put forth good performances.

at work here. Good movie. Good acting.

"You provide the pictures, I'll provide the war."

and I think we have a match! :toast:

(who killed the fairness doctrine), and the decision by
corporate America to require television news divisions to
turn a profit.

I'd always attributed it to Reagan. But yeah, the end of the fairness doctrine was one of the greatest blows against journalism, and outweighs the contributions of individual media whores and their corporate masters. I seem to recall Gingrich being involved in it, too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID66/10487.html

It was one of the reasons why the Democrats refused
to confirm him for the SCOTUS.

It's not one man, although a few of them on that list certainly helped the current trend happen. If it wasn't one of them however, it would've been someone else. All in the name of profit.

I wonder why people sometimes wonder how Murdoch could allow a show like "The Simpson's" on his network, even when they take shots at him, like in this year's season finale. It's because it makes money. He knows that nobody can touch him. And I doubt many people watch "The Simpson's" for the political twist the show has from time to time. It's been said plenty that the show works on many levels. But most people watch the show for the laughs.

Which is why he runs NewsCorp/Fox News the way he does. He saw that there was a "market" for that kind of news. It makes him a ton of money, and if it makes the people that get their news from Fox dumber, what does he care? He's not in it for the news, he's in it for the money.

and Greed. Throw in pretty boys and gorgeous blonds, as #1 prerequisite for the job. Well connected by wealth and elitist name a must. Experience and Education don't matter.

Best ideal female reporter, highly educated with top credentials; Christian Amanpour.

I blame them

they let the criminal bushgang mess up their integrity

Don Hewitt, who gets credit for elevating the T.V. "infotainment" -style that eventually gave us the fluffy personalities that read the news for CNN.

...for vetoing the legislative version of the Fairness Doctrine in 1989, after the FCC regulatory version was shot down by the courts in 1987. Though the Fairness Doctrine applied to broadcast journalism, the slide into packaged propaganda that it enabled has dragged all journalism into the mud.

Then there's the neutering of intent behind the Rule of Sevens, which enabled the 2,000+ companies that owned the 29,000+ major media outlets in 1989 to be gobbled up by 6 mega-corporations, creating the monopolized narrowing of the agenda we see today.

Now we have a living, breating Pravda-press of our own.

that values their stockholders' returns over journalistic ethics.

He signed the Telecom (Deregulation) Act of 1996 - paving the way for Faux and McNews.

...then you should also include Conrad Black as well.

n/t

in the words of al franken...

Richard Mellon "fucking communist cunt" Scaife