By Jaime Ortega.
The U.S. media has not been transparent about how they report important national and international stories. Interest and government backup, tend to block the news morality many networks ‘try’ to represent on their daily broadcast stations to the unaware public sphere.
If you look at how Fox and MSNBC reported the latest world scandal, the NSA massive wiretap network involving 35 world leaders who are close U.S. allies, one has to rethink the media’s report policy. Any media critic could conclude it the story was not taken into consideration from either of the ideologically opposite networks that are supposed to be ‘fair and balanced.’
Its not just Fox and MSNBC, but also CBS, ABC, and other notable television stations that have buried or diminish the latest spying scandal. Some networks like CNN, have despicably lowered the story into the bracket of less important tabloid news, and even as of today, I have not seen any changes!
For these networks its more important to talk about a kidnapping case, which sadly happens almost everyday, than to show how the U.S. anemically harmed their reputation with its closest allies, and the consequences such behaviors entice for its strategical interest overseas.
The U.S. broadcast system unlike the press or radio, has shown disturbing signs over and over again, hiding important international stories that have great impact on the countries credibility as a super power. The sad part is that they haven’t learned from the lessons of the past.
This is partly because mainstream broadcast networks want the support of the government, that consequently rewards them with more political concessions, and less restrictions to amend certain laws for keeping the government out of trouble. A sort of Media lobbying that is not too spoken about, but happens beneath the radar.
These mainstream networks “will not” investigate a story like journalist are supposed to conduct, and will only enter an investigation when they clearly feel like the story has been openly un-lidded by other networks.
Media conglomerates are powerful institutions that posses many different types of enterprises that the government is likely to financially punish, if these mainstream networks that represent millions of Americans stay ‘out’ the Patriot Act boundaries they’re supposedly to comply. by helping national strategical interest to protect U.S. political stability. Therefore these networks can continue to broadcast to secure their assets with government supervision.
The U.S. mainstream broadcast media is corrupted, and if Fox News really hated Obama’s overall policies and the Democratic ideology, the NSA’s story would have been a perfect bullet to support their own ideological struggle and nail the opposition with a powerful blow. But the truth is that Bush also spied on its allies, and MSNBC and other networks also stayed quiet.
In the end, both Fox, and MSNBC represent the same repetitive failure that keeps harming the reputation and integrity of investigative reporting many struggle to revive. Hint WMD’s.
Keep it up broadcast media, The Daily Journalist is watching and we’re only getting bigger and larger by the day.
