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This 5 page paper discusses the links between the media conglomerates, media audiences and the globalization of the media. An overall assessment of the media offers evidence for the need for reforms. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the Constitution of the United States and, indeed, is also a guaranteed right in many industrialized nations around the world. However, it would seem that as time has moved forward
there has been, almost, a devolution of the purpose of the news media. No longer does the news create itself, but rather, the news is created by the studios and
broadcasting companies. When one stops to consider the enormous responsibility of the broadcasting companies it is frightening to realize that a small percentage of the population decides what the majority
will view as credible and reportable news. Therefore, one can state that no longer is the news simply reported by the media: they create it. It goes without saying that
most Americans feel that the Media is out of control in this country. When one stops to consider who is pulling the strings for most of the industries in the
nation, then it reduced to a pitiful handful who are calling the shots and in essence determining social policies, and indirectly (and sometimes directly) federal policies(Bagdikian 2000). Check out any
major news service in the country. Who are they owned by? Large industries who have nothing in common with the news or entertainment industry. So why own a newspaper company,
radio station or television station (and most of them own all three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so
that their products are positioned in such a way as to make the public believe that they need these products, or to drive demand for a certain segment of the
population. It is evident even to those not prone to take part in any political activist movements, that something has got to change about the way in which the American
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