Take a stand!

The story I just read was very eye opening. I have always seen the media as more of a "you tell me what I want to know" sort of business. After reading "Taking a Stand" I get the feeling alot of what I always thought was ligitimate news is actually a well placed PR stunt. Many news agencies are simply broadcasting a pre-determined message, perhaps not presenting all the sides needed to make a fully informed case. Never have I thought about the power the media holds in this light. The News media could have shed more light on the racial issues of hurricane Katrina, and they didn't, for the most part the Media has been all about attacking the already wounded.

A press that is not informing the people for the public's sake, and instead informing the people for a corporate agenda is not a press I want to be apart of. Perhaps that is why the current infrastructure of the news media as we know it is changing.

Newspapers cover ordinary bland stories for most everyday of the week,Television news covers the same 6 stories for three days at a time, but after reading "Take A Stand" I have come to realize that our media is failing us. The everyday stories should be reduced, and filled with more stories like this one, A story about a homeless man that died at the bottom of an Elevator shaft. The story goes on to highlight the run down streets of Detroit, and how one man who owns many of these buildings should be held accountable. Journalism like that is what people need, journalism that gets things accomplished.

The truth is we will always need journalism, and in today's world of information, we will always need a credible source to lean on. Citizen journalism is not the answer to get the kind of journalism we need, but it is the best thing we have to fighting the one way street news that we get now.