Journal 13


"The media is too concentrated. Too few people own too much. There’s really five companies that control 90 percent of what
we read, see, and hear. It’s not healthy."
                                    ---Ted Turner

Ted turner argues that media should be controlled by a larger group of people. Then again, not just a larger group ,but a more diverse one. Like Turner, there are many other who believe this, one person being our ex Vice President Bernie Sanders. In an article he published, he describes media as a threat to the democracy that's established. I agree with both Turner and Sanders, the fact that only 10% of the media is controlled by the public (or many smallgroups of people) is very sad in a sense. Since 90 % of the media is controlled by companies such as CBS, Disney, Time Warner, GE, and News Corp, the information we see hear or read is limited. The perspectives those companies can give aren't the perspective of the working class or as a matter of fact those of the general public. In Sander's article he states that the media spends more time around events such as the Oscars,  Super Bowl Sunday, and celebrity drama and not enough tie with the REAL important issues such as climate change, poverty, and or other issues that the middle class are interested in. We now more than ever are seeing that politics and other serious issues are being sensationalized. Instead of focusing on the facts during this presidential run we saw media focusing more on the competition than actually giving the public the facts about each candidate and the policies each wanted to implement. I believe that 90% of the media should not be owned by such small groups of people. Tv, newspapers, and the radio have a deep influence on us and becaus of this i believe that the majority of the media should be controlled by many groups of people. If the media were controlled by many groups that would change it completely.









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