Journalists are human beings.
It is like burying one’s head in the sand assuming that Journalists are apolitical.
Every individual has his opinions:one can not be expected not to express his views.
If,by expressing in Public,Public opinion is molded, even then it can not be called as a sin.
Let the Majority (?!) decide.
However the expressions used are in bad taste.
( I think most people agree to the fact that all politicians are not only ‘anti intellectual’ but buffoons and Criminals as well,at least as far as India concerned;that Jews control US is a fact)
It is also a Myth that Media is neutral.
With reference to whom?
We might say ,by being hated by all the parties, Media can be said to be Neutral.
Is this a sound argument?
Fact is media is as Neutral as its proprietors are.
On the other point that public Funds for media in the form of subsidy is that it leads to arm twisting by Governments at critical times.
Look at new York Times; they wih-held information on Raymond Davis at the pleasure of the White House.
Inject more funds from Government to media, the result is Goebbels in full force.
Private sector in Media is also not above board.
Look at media influencing Government right from Cabinet posts in India.
( please read my stories under Media/corruption ).
With all these warts Democracy is still the best available system for governance right now.
NPR lost its chief executive Wednesday, a day after the news organization was embarrassed by a secretly recorded video that caught one of its top managers calling Republicans “anti-intellectual” and tea party members “racists.”
Vivian Schiller, NPR’s top officer, was forced out of her job after two years, just as a Republican-held Congress has accelerated the debate on cutting funds for public broadcasting.
Schiller officially resigned, but there was little doubt she was ousted under pressure from NPR’s board and officials from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the organization that acts as Congress’s liaison in distributing about $430 million a year to public radio and television stations.
Schiller announced she is leaving only about 24 hours after a video surfaced on the Internet with comments by NPR’s top fundraiser, Ron Schiller (no relation to Vivian Schiller), made during a luncheon meeting with two men who posed as wealthy donors from a Muslim charity. During the meeting, which was recorded by James O’Keefe, a well-known conservative provocateur, Schiller disparaged Republicans as “anti-intellectual” and tea party members as racists and xenophobes. He also suggested that Jews control the nation’s newspapers and that NPR would be better off without its federal subsidy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030905763.html
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