Why we Need 99% News
Corporate, neo-liberal, right wing media, pro-Republican, pro-Democrat news, have Americans, and the World, at each others throats. We are not being told the truth. #99News is hoping to change that. No more 'fake news.'
90% of Media in America is controlled by just 6 Corporations
To put this number into perspective, in 1983, 90% of the media was controlled by 50 companies. It is hard to get choice, thus differences in reporting, when such a small number of companies own the media. Consolidation in broadcast reporting has also brought with it an increase in extreme points of view. Lack of diversity in media necessarily brings with lack of diversity in thinking. And that's bad for democracy.
So it should be no surprise that the public's trust in the news media has been declining for decades: The U.S. Ranks 42nd in Press Freedom
Shamefully, the United States, despite a Constitution that protects freedom of the press, ranks only 42nd in the World in press freedom.
The Root of Fake News Is the Corporate Lust for Profit in Media |
The Press is Under Attack
Press freedom and speech under attack in America, and elsewhere, especially under Trump. Some news outlets like Twitter are part of the attack by it's owner. Others have chosen to 'bend a knee' in a effort to avoid criticism from Trump. Major news sources like facebook, CNN, Washington Post, MSNBC, ABC, etc., have turned to the right in an effort to make more profits, at the expense of diversity in reporting. Either way, the American people are the victims. We are getting less truth and more propapaganda.
The U.S. press, like the U.S. government, is a corrupt and troubled institution. Corrupt not so much in the sense that it accepts bribes but in a systemic sense. It fails to do what it claims to do, what it should do, and what society expects it to do. |
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