Re: FW: Stop Media Monopoly

**"Peter Loewer" t*@earthlink.net**

The problem is the media might be diverse but most of what's read by the
average American is not! The major TV news networks feed out as much pap as
news and the minors, like Fox, are literally hate channels. On radio, Long
John and others of his ilk have been replaced by entertainers who call the
left mean and vindictive and preach about evolution and tell tales of black
helicopters run by the UN.  This is all fairly new. Twenty-five to thirty
years ago, there were more in-depth magazines and columns,  not less, more
news, not less, and more in-depth reporting. And, it's The New York Times,
not the New York Times. Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Campbell" <dcamp911@juno.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] FW: Stop Media Monopoly


>
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:27:55 -0700 "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
> writes:
> > I make no comment on this one way or another.  I am passing this
> > along
> > because I felt it was germain to the list.
>
> Since you initiated this way off-topic topic, Ron, I assume you will
> allow others to comment.
>
> I think it is important to know that this so-called "grassroots" movement
> was highly organized, primarily through the Internet, and that moveon is
> a far left organization. You can approve or disapprove, but you should
> know where it's coming from.
>
> I have been an avid consumer of news, particularly political news, for
> nearly fifty years now. For most of that time my electronic media access
> was limited to three television networks. Now there are somewhere between
> five and eight, maybe more, depending on how and what you count. I had a
> local newspaper, and maybe the New York Times if I was willing to wait a
> couple of days. Now I can wake up in the morning and read Le Monde or the
> London Times or Pravda and check out the BBC or the RNC or DNC or even
> moveon.com. Newsbriefs from several sources are automatically delivered
> to my email box every day. You may argue that not everyone has Internet
> access, but just about everyone who is interested enough to want such
> information does have it.
>
> The fact is that we have much more access to divergent opinion than we
> ever had. I don't see what the problem is.
>
> D
>
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