Should the government break up the media companies?

Question

meaning, should one company not be allowed to own radio sations, cable companies, news paper company, and network TV stations. should they be forced to split up in order to provide better news instead of forcing their view of the world...what happened to investigating report rather than lets find what i like and show that...

Answer 1

Great question. When I glanced at your question I thought , is this guy nuts, freedom of speech, it should protect companies from being splitting up by the hands of our government!? Looking deeper into your question, there might be that possibility that the government could feel that company XYZ is creating a risk to national security by imposing a one sided opinion through multi sources. I guess Bill Gates was the opposite end of something like you're talking about? Is it fair? No. We live in a country that allows us these freedoms. Could the government shutdown company XYZ? Were there WMD in Iraq? Did Cheney have his hand in Haliburton? Was there a lone shooter in the Kennedy assassination? Anything is possible.

Answer 2

R u from the US? There are acts preventing companies from owning too much medias. The one who pays, "orders" the music. There can not be a Tv/radio station or a news paper/ magazine without an owner, someone who gives the money. And it is hard to achieve complete objectiveness too. Those who watch, listen, read can make their choice- which of the channels is better, where are the best news programes and thus a competition is maintained and the medias are forced to provide beter and better shows, news, programs.

Answer 3

Well, in response to this question, the media companies in the US are spread across the political spectrum. You can take your pick between the ABC/NBC/CBS (presumably liberal) and Fox News (presumably conservative). And you can always look up news from the BBC and China's People's Daily online for two conflicting views on world news!

Since you don't provide an e-mail address, I'm going to write about some other stuff here in response to your answer to my question and another question of yours =)

Q: "American food not good enough for you?"
A: That's true. Typical "American food" is terrible. I'm being honest here!

Q: "What about American culture?"
A: America has no culture apart from the immigrants' culture. Britain has a culture. France has a culture. China has one, Japan has one, India has many. Whatever native culture America used to have, it was wiped out with the Native Americans. As for modern American values, face it, they're the work of successive waves of immigrants.

Q: "How come all minorities want to move to white countires?"
A: I don't, not anymore. I lived in the US for 2 years (legally), hated it, and moved back to Hong Kong. I'm doing fine in HK, feeling very happy, and fit in perfectly well at my university. So I'm in a position to speak =p

Answer 4

The media has forgotten its role as the "fourth estate" - the one entity that's supposed to the watchdog, protecting us from the evils of a tyrannical, oppressive government. Unfortunately, the media companies have become mammoth conglomerates who only have one thing on their mind: PROFITS.

The larger any corporation, organization or government gets, the less manageable it becomes, and the fewer people benefit from it.

That's certainly happened with our government and with the media. Nowadays, the government controls the media because the media allows itself to be controlled. Run by bean counters who only look at the bottom line, media giants rarely do any really deep-digging into government activities. It's easier, more cost-effective, and advantageous to simply receive the press release, read it or print it "verbatim", and accept its contents as factual, accurate, and truthful. If you become too much of the proverbial thorn in the government's side, your reporters won't be given an opportunity to ask questions, won't be invited to do interviews, and might be barred from the White House press room.
I used to work for the biggest of the big media companies. The "news" content in a TV broadcast or a newspaper article was unimportant: it only served as a vessel with which to fill "holes" in air time or white space that couldn't be filled with commercials or display advertising.
Yes, media companies are too large, too incompetent, too tied to big business, Wall Street, and the government, and far too biased. Our conservative-biased media allows propagandists such as Rush Limbaugh, Shawn Hannity, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, and Howard Stern to poison our airwaves with toxic innuendos, unmitigated hatred, a lack of objectivity, packs of half-truths, outright lies, and vulgar displays or what they claim is their "freedom of speech". Just as the Hitler propagandists portrayed Adolph as a great leader and savior, all the media conglomerates today "tow the line", proclaiming George Bush to be America's great leader and savior, when in fact there has been no administration in modern U.S. history that demands more investigation, in-depth probing, hard-hitting revelations, and absolute watch-dogging. Not since the days of Watergate has a government administration tried to manipulate and intimidate the press as much as the Bushites have.
Media conglomerates need to be broken up so that the "fourth estate" can reclaim its role as America's watchdog and protector of the truth. -RKO-

Answer 5

Well they may not have to because of the emerging competition that the old media has with the newer and often cheaper internet content.

Answer 6

Well thanks to the repukes, it just became legal for media companies to own a unlimited amount of radio stations. You can thank them

Answer 7

No....freedom pf the press.

Answer 8

yea all left wing

Answer 9

No