The rumours and misinformation circulated freely by Canadian newsmedia this week is worrisome.
Ottlibs thoughtful post yesterday on conservative media bias and comments by readers might make you wonder what the news should sound like.
What are the alternatives?
Here is an example. (It starts with a 15 second commercial for RealNews by Danny Glover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9vtBYOsqE
I don't know much about RealNews.
But it makes you wonder whether the Internet might ultimately provide the answer (or corrective) to media concentration and its abuse by wealthy conservatives.
The Conservative use of its base as a instrument to attempt to sway talk-radio and flood message boards with party doctrine also needs to be addressed.
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