The Ratings Collapse of The Establishment Media Represents A Huge Cultural Change In The West
There is a massive media shift taking place in America and other Western countries as more and more young people reject mainstream media institutions.
They are turning to blogs, Internet news anchors, social media websites like Twitter and Facebook, and internet-based commentators to get their news and alternative perspectives of reality.
Big media companies have no chance competing against the rising independent media in a free-market atmosphere. They are history unless they can successfully lobby the federal government to censor anti-government websites in the name of cyber security.
But such extreme measures to silence free speech and maintain the authority of the establishment media are likely to be resisted by sophisticated activists.
Young people have every kind of technological gadget at their disposal to access their favorite podcasts, blogs and radio shows which are independently operated and offer unique perspectives to world events.
This huge shift in news consumption will have cultural, social and political ramifications for many years to come, possibly altering the very nature of our societies and our governments.
What we are witnessing is no small revolution – it is the liberation of the Western media and, by extension, the Western public mind, from government and corporate narratives about history and reality.
The biggest winners in this shift towards a free media are Internet broadcasters like Alex Jones, Amy Goodman, Max Keiser, Cenk Uygur, and Keith Olbermann who are keeping a safe distance from the dying mainstream corporate media. There are probably others that I am unaware of.
What these 21st century news anchors have that regular news anchors on television lack is credibility, intelligence, respect and trust. I would even add humanity.
If you saw Goodman’s coverage of Troy Davis’s unjust execution last week you’ll know what I’m referring to.
Alex Jones has the most credibility and trust because of his fearless stance that 9/11 was an inside job which he made in the summer of 2001, two months before the towers even collapsed. You can’t buy that kind of credibility and integrity (Glenn Beck probably knows that now after experiencing a hyped and manufactured popularity with conservatives).
Credibility comes with time and Alex has credibility that is unequal to any other news anchor on television or the Internet.
There are many ignorant and clueless people out there who may disagree, but I think a decade is enough time to recognize Alex’s intelligence, honesty and courage. Alex’s word is weighed in gold.
He has intellectual depth and his words are full of emotion, two things that are extremely rare nowadays in the land of the free.
Moreover, the ratings collapse of state-corporate television comes as the long track record of its censorship practices become more widely recognized in American and Western society.
full article: http://theintelhub.com/2011/09/28/t...epresents-a-huge-cultural-change-in-the-west/
There is a massive media shift taking place in America and other Western countries as more and more young people reject mainstream media institutions.
They are turning to blogs, Internet news anchors, social media websites like Twitter and Facebook, and internet-based commentators to get their news and alternative perspectives of reality.
Big media companies have no chance competing against the rising independent media in a free-market atmosphere. They are history unless they can successfully lobby the federal government to censor anti-government websites in the name of cyber security.
But such extreme measures to silence free speech and maintain the authority of the establishment media are likely to be resisted by sophisticated activists.
Young people have every kind of technological gadget at their disposal to access their favorite podcasts, blogs and radio shows which are independently operated and offer unique perspectives to world events.
This huge shift in news consumption will have cultural, social and political ramifications for many years to come, possibly altering the very nature of our societies and our governments.
What we are witnessing is no small revolution – it is the liberation of the Western media and, by extension, the Western public mind, from government and corporate narratives about history and reality.
The biggest winners in this shift towards a free media are Internet broadcasters like Alex Jones, Amy Goodman, Max Keiser, Cenk Uygur, and Keith Olbermann who are keeping a safe distance from the dying mainstream corporate media. There are probably others that I am unaware of.
What these 21st century news anchors have that regular news anchors on television lack is credibility, intelligence, respect and trust. I would even add humanity.
If you saw Goodman’s coverage of Troy Davis’s unjust execution last week you’ll know what I’m referring to.
Alex Jones has the most credibility and trust because of his fearless stance that 9/11 was an inside job which he made in the summer of 2001, two months before the towers even collapsed. You can’t buy that kind of credibility and integrity (Glenn Beck probably knows that now after experiencing a hyped and manufactured popularity with conservatives).
Credibility comes with time and Alex has credibility that is unequal to any other news anchor on television or the Internet.
There are many ignorant and clueless people out there who may disagree, but I think a decade is enough time to recognize Alex’s intelligence, honesty and courage. Alex’s word is weighed in gold.
He has intellectual depth and his words are full of emotion, two things that are extremely rare nowadays in the land of the free.
Moreover, the ratings collapse of state-corporate television comes as the long track record of its censorship practices become more widely recognized in American and Western society.
full article: http://theintelhub.com/2011/09/28/t...epresents-a-huge-cultural-change-in-the-west/
