Media Vichar Manch

Environment journalism and corporate media

This is an excellent piece by a Guardian journalist,George Monbiot, on the state of environment journalism in the West. Unfortunately, the situation here in India is much the same.

"A journalist who is concerned about the destruction of the environment will by definition find herself at odds with the prevailing media culture. This is because the interests of the men who own the media don't end with the media. Many of them have a direct financial involvement in dozens of different kinds of business. And as the quote about Conrad Black suggests, even if they don't, they associate with those who do. And multi-millionaires who run, for example, extractive industries or public utilities, want exactly what the multi-millionaires who run the media want: complete freedom to swing their fist, whether or not your nose is in the way. They want, in other words, deregulation."

Read full text at:
http://nuclearfree.lynx.co.nz/monbiotSA.htm

Thanks Gopi Sunder for sending this!

posted by Dinesh C Sharma @ 5:19 PM