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A bitter taste of April politics
Sunday, April 20, 2008
(Berlin, Germany - 1.30 p.m. local time)
I have missed the ABC democratic debate and picked up the pieces on the net. What comes across is a bitter taste that provoked Will Bunch, a Philadelphia Daily News writer, to post an open letter to ABC’s moderators Gibson and Stephanopoulos on his blog. He wrote that he was so angry that "it's hard to even type accurately because my hands are shaking."
He said the ABC newsmen spent too much time on trivial matters that didn't concern most voters."By so badly botching arguably the most critical debate of such an important election, in a time of both war and economic misery, you disgraced the American voters, and in fact even disgraced democracy itself", Bunch wrote.
Interesting remark. ABC is owned by the Walt Disney company and if one reflects on the disgrace of democracy under corporate ownership, then maybe it should not come as a surprise that most journalists sell out sooner or later to stay in the game.
A new world order that is reflected through media policy and the power structures - carefully constructed by corporate media giants - is a reality that brands our brains. I think a lot of American citizens, and surely some left-wing journalists, do still believe in the idealistic values of their democratic forefathers and their constitutional rights. Hope is alive.
How to protect the constitution and not sell out? It is a question that Obama often asks... I guess it’s the key question - when one is connected to the ruling class and power structures that pay your bills and mortgage - unless you are under foreclosure anyway. It’s the same problem with journalism in closed state controlled societies like Russia, Iran or China who use fear and intimidation to get controlled coverage.
The expectations that we have as citizens on mainstream news and distribution channels have been frustrated to a large extent from day one. That is the reason citizen media and inter-active story telling has become the voice of the young generation via web 2.0. It’s an alternative way to tell what is untold and think about who and what gets on the microphone. And why most things are done by bloggers and pod-casters in a self -help way. This is the reason I prefer my news mix out of an eclectic bunch of websites that have some fresh insights - you can check above:
http://www.factcheck.org/, http://www.democracynow.org/, http://current.com/.