The scope -- and dangers -- of GE's control of NBC and MSNBC

Salon by Glenn Greenwald | Aug. 3, 2009 (Opinion)

this is one of the most blatant examples yet of pernicious corporate control over America's journalism. The most striking aspect of this episode is that GE isn't even bothering any longer to deny the fact that they exert control over MSNBC's journalism. They've brazenly dispensed with the long-held fiction of the sanctity of journalistic independence from interference by the corporate parents that own America's largest news organizations. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 4, 2009

Greenwald digs into the lack of journalistic ethics in the military industrial media complex, as evidenced in the actions of G.E. The message is that mainstream media is big business, and is corrupt, and cannot be trusted to fully report the news.

Independent news may be the only news; the rest is filtered propaganda for profit.

GE’s journalists will stop reporting critically on Fox and its top assets because Fox can expose actions of GE that we want to keep concealed.

The reason the journalism industry insisted for so long on the ludicrous fiction that corporate parents never violated the sanctity of journalistic independence is precisely because everyone understood why that would be so dangerous. Apparently, they no longer feel a need to maintain that fiction.

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