Is the media too powerful? Not if they're used for the reason's they espouse. The media should be powerful. It's when they become corrupt that they become too powerful for the wrong reasons. Yes, corporations have become part of the picture. But, what about in the old days, when the media was an independant industry. People like William Randolph Hurst could make or break presidents. It's one of the themes of Citizen Kane. These days, political parties own stock in media corporations, in a very hidden hand and backroom kind of way. I suppose it all comes back to journalistic integrity.
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Exactly. And that's why political lobbyists run this country. These huge corporations want standards and laws to change so they can pursue their own greedy interests, so they pay people to go to washington and bribe elected officials. It's actually one of the themes of the Star Wars Prequel trilogy.
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yes there are independent media, there are other places in the world than the US where there are a political system that is made up of more than just two parties. Some of these parties are all about being watchdogs so that media can be independent
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