Is the media to soft on the government these days .?

Question

Seems as if real hard news stories investigating fraud and outright theft of government money is lacking .
WE know about the big dig and its over runs and the 20 + year New York water pipe project that has cost billions .
What we do not see is all the special intrest backed politicians and programs they spin off creating billions in work for thier friends back home at tax payer expense .
MILLIONS given to produce reports by law firms and special intrest groups to promote projects in communitys around america .
PUBLIC funds used for civic arena's in 30 of the top cities in america with building contractors makeing millions and also running and operating the hotels and services after construction .
THE land bought for pennies is then sold to developers cheap who then profit tremendously while using tax payer money .
MILLIONS wasted on the katrina trailers that will be acutioned off for pennies on the dollar and resold for a huge profit by a select few .
WE need to expose this waste .

Answer 1

Yes, the media is too soft on government. The media is big business, hence what sells is what gets priority. Or, what bleeds, leads. Notice the relative time devoted to Jon-Bennet Ramsey, Natalie Holloway, Scott Peterson and OJ trials.

Media outlets that do courageous investigative work and win Pulitzer prizes for it, are attacked by the Vice President and Attorney General and the Justice Department opens its coffers to wage full scale investigations to stem the flow of information. And Karl Rove organizes letter-writing campaigns involving hordes of people that threaten to boycott advertisers in publications if they persist in certain coverage.

The broadcast media caters to customers conditioned to pay attention to sound bite coverage and "fair and balanced" reporting, in which opposing opinions are expressed -- often by one well-informed individual and balanced by an opinionated individual who has no actual information about an issue.

Two media outlets do serve the public but one is becoming suspect. C-Span does seem to have non-biased and in-depth coverage and is paid for by cable broadcasters. NPR and PBS has been infiltrated by partisans with financial ties to the Bush administration.

The Internet has the potential to inform and to become the most important media outlet. But anybody can publish anything so "consumers" of Internet information have to be more discriminating that consumers of traditional media. Traditional standards of liable and slander are applied less strictly to the Internet.

Answer 2

As the "fourth estate", the media was always the watchdog for American citizens, questioning everything the government did and exposing corruption, fraud, incompetence and waste. Now the media is owned by corporate conglomerates who only care about profits, and who have way too "cozy' of a relationship with the government. It's more 'cost efficient' to read or print the prepared government press release than it is to dig into the story, conduct an independent investigation, and find out what's really going on. Until newspapers and TV stations are once again independent of multi-billion-dollar media chains, citizens will be without a true "fourth estate" protecting the citizenry and its interests from the special interests of government. -
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Answer 3

Then how do "9/11 truthers" seem on television and make internet pages that anybody can circulate to? How can Jesse Ventura seem on Larry King and exhilaration Behar and Hannity and The View and positioned across doubts approximately 9/11 on each and every seen charm? does now no longer the government be attempting each and every little subject they might to get him off of there?

Answer 4

If you think that's bad try living in the UK! Politicians selling honours for money, billions spent on health and wasted on bureaucracy and PR, PMs going on FREE holidays during a major world crisis, Deputy PM(idiot, adulterer, taking bribes). how many more do you want?
Where are the likes of Woodward and Bernstein when we need 'em?

Answer 5

News used to be reporting and still is but you have to search for it. The major networks bring us entertainment disguised as news and that just stinks. Why do television reporters look as if they are going out on the town lately on all the network news programs? Most of the female news reporters on television appear to be doing free commercials for Tiffany & Co. That tells me all I need to know.

Answer 6

Yes.If it was as hard as it could be,you'd have paid Republicans
saying the media is doing a "commie takeover" of this country.

Oh wait,you already do.

Scrutiny makes government look bad.Hence,they villainize scutiny.
Hence Faux "news",hence the "liberal media" that is in fact run by conservative corporations.

Answer 7

Ask the NY Times on how soft they are on the Bush Admin.

Answer 8

way too long to read...Have a nice day...