Dox47 wrote:
Meistersinger wrote:
^^^
In addition, when I was in graduate school, one of the big issues of the day in library science, was who controls the data. In this case think of data as the raw materials, and information as how one presents that data. No less than Tom Childers, who taught at Drexel's school of Information Studies, was sounding the alarm on single ownership of both content and conduit. Unfortunately, his prediction of a less informed society, was spot-on, and it doesn't matter one bit if the information oligarchs are communist, liberal, conservative, or John Birchers. Any wonder why Johnny or Suzy don't know jack sh!t?
Interesting, I was just reading a very convincing little post about how 90% of academia is liberal, as is 90% of the media, which leads one to really wonder about what we think we know.
the media are only as liberal as the conservative corporations that own them.
We're currently witnessing one of the problems with this, as campaigns pour cash into various media companies that therefore have no incentive whatsoever to point out how corrupting money can be on politicians.
It's a little bit amazing that voters largely seem to be aware of it this time, though: the Internet is still relatively free.