E se os jornalistas portugueses fossem obrigados por uma lei a ouvir as diversas partes e a dar notícias, não infotretenimento?...
The Reason Our Media Doesn't Report Real News: [Robert Kennedy, Jr.] said that by law the media had an obligation to cover the news and to cover news affecting their community, and to cover all sides of an issue/event. That law was called the Fairness Doctrine. It also forbade the consolidation of businesses, including the broadcasting companies. [...]
That law and responsibility was abolished by Ronald Reagan in 1988.
Since that time mergers and consolidations have become endemic, and Kennedy points out that the media has focused more on gaining returns for its shareholders than keeping citizens properly informed as they were once mandated to do.
?(Now), instead of reporting the news, they?re entertaining us. [...]
Kennedy asserts that this informational deficit is directly attributable to the lack of coverage by the press. ?It?s not that people don?t care about these issues,? Kennedy says, ?it?s that they don?t know about them."
[via Rebecca Blood]
