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The Seduction of Power (via Only Ed)

On By southwerkIn business ethics

Battle. That’s a very strange word to use in the context of media in conflict but I don’t doubt its importance or relevance.

I believe the battle for the print, broadcast and cable media has been lost. The kind of news that was in the paper and on the television 35 years ago is gone. We now live in an age of “distraction” news, content free news and outright deception. It is a great pity.

A free people cannot defend itself without information, facts and leadership, we have none of that. We have celebrity scandals, fake facts that our sniveling media decline to describe as a lies and a jello spined leadership so beholden to financial interests they contest among themselves for who is the most slavish in their devotion. They throw their offering on the altars of these demigods like the food offerings thrown before the wooden carvings of Odin in Pre Medieval Scandinavia.

Read on and discover nations and cultures where the media is still up for grabs.

James Pilant

  The Seduction of Power   Posted 24 June 2011, by Raúl Pierri, Inter Press  Service (IPS), ips.org MONTEVIDEO, Jun 24, 2011 (IPS) – The governments and big private media groups in Latin America are waging a war to win over public opinion, the ultimate arbiter of legitimacy, and the only solution would appear to be to strike up an alliance. "Battle" was the most oft-repeated term in the seminar on "Communication, pluralism and the role … Read More

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What’s the point? (via Spook Moor a rambling blog)

On By southwerkIn business ethics2 Comments

I’m always pleased to see a blogger return to the struggle, in this case, a blogger’s most simple struggle, to be heard. Some of favorite bloggers have decided to hang it up and leave blogging to others. I know it’s hard to get an audience. You have to blog every day and I’m told you have to stay at it for at least  a year. I read one blogger who said his blog is like an octopus that never lets go. You blog on holidays, you blog on trips and you blog when you don’t feel like it. (The last one of those is hardest on me.)

Our blogger is 56.  I’m 54. This means we are both kinda’ scary looking and women have learned to ignore us. So, we are blogging compatriots.

Welcome back!

James Pilant

The more and more I look around, the more and more flummoxed I become. I’ve often wondered if there is any point in having a blog? I had one ages ago and two men and a dog visited it. Not even the dog stayed, which about sums it up. This after I had spent some time in snazzing it up so lost heart and stopped doing it. Just lately however, some people have talked me into it again, so here I am. But I still insist that unless you are famous, or pre … Read More

via Spook Moor a rambling blog