Af Gustav Nordentoft

Corporate Watch har bl.a. et interview med Robert W. McChesney, Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. . Han siger: - om hvad der styrer udviklingen af massemedier: "History points to the fact that technologies, while they have tremendous influence and all sorts of effects upon society that are unintended and unanticipated, their fundamental course is determined by how they're owned and operated. It's almost an iron law of US communication media, going back to AM radio in the 1920s, that new technologies don't seem commercially viable at first, so they're developed by the nonprofit, noncommercial sector, by amateurs. When they develop [the technology] so you can make money off it, the corporate sector comes in, and through a variety of mechanisms, usually its dominance of politicians, it muscles all these other people out of the way and takes it over." -og hvordan man ændre tingenes tilstand: "In the current playing field, we can't win. In the current playing field we're dealing with a situation where the vast majority of Americans are totally demoralized and depoliticized, sitting on their couch with a remote control and a bag of chips, convinced that nothing can change. And that is not an accident. That is exactly the education they're receiving day in and day out: nothing can change. What we've got to do is change that equation. Until we change it we can't win. But to change that, there's no mystery about it; it's getting organized. That's how you change things. Getting people educated, organized and participating, off the couch. Put the chips down, put the remote down, start talking to people, get involved, and realize this is our country, not theirs, and take it back." Man kan abonnere på nyheds-mail: What's New on Corporate Watch "To subscribe, send the following message to majordomo@igc.org: subscribe corp-watchers Subscribers to corp-watchers will receive updates and alerts only from Corporate Watch. corp-watchers is not a discussion list, and will not flood your email box." Gustav Nordentoft