VITAMEDIAS
A less free press: The digital revolution and the arrival of the internet have been traumatic for the world's media. News and information are now attracting the attention of industrial giants better known for involvement in electricity, computing, arms manufacture, construction, telecommunications and water. Eager for power and easy profits, they are in a hurry to buy into the action. Massive empires have been built in a very short time. And in the process fundamental human values are being destroyed.
The first casualty has been the quality of news and information. All over the world giant conglomerates are grabbing chunks of the media.