We'll be responsible--we promise. Just let us buy all the radio and TV stations in your town--once you let us do that, we promise we'll report on ourselves if we do anything wrong--or if there are any actions we're taking that might impact the free exchange of ideas. Why just look--we report on ourselves all the time.
Well, maybe not. How much local coverage did you see or hear regarding the recent debate over the FCC's plan to allow still more media consolidation. Not much? While these guys actually acknowledged that they have a dog in the fight, there wasn't a whole lot else out there to see or hear.
While the WSJ may have acknowledged that their owner was eager to allow more consolidation, there was no coverage of the debate leading up to the FCC's vote to allow more consolidation--something that we believe would have been a pretty good idea, considering that we live in a democracy. But if you're a reporter, what incentive do you have to write a story that may get the public all riled up? And make your owners mad. Because they're doing so well in the "journalism" business.
So, what's a citizen to do? Go here to find out what happened at the FCC hearing in Washington--that wasn't covered--because it's not important.
Yes, the concept of self-reporting...one of the hallmarks of the free market. For big media, it seems to be working just fine.
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