Has the HBO series "Newsroom" been influencing the media?

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. Nope and I will tell you why...

ACCESS... media at all levels is afraid of pissing off the important people and losing access. This is what scares them the most. No access, no story, so they tell me.

So yes, the corporations, not just those who own the media, as well as politicians, run rough shot over media.

We had a perfect example of this in a local story last night. And what should have been a simple they had a fire at a facility and they have their own fire brigade, (that is what got us rolling, what do you mean the utility has their own fire brigade?) has become something else. That is because my editor is not worried about ruffling a few feathers when it comes to energy companies. Yup, a story I need to write today. And since it is not truly breaking nooz right now, but how a public utility plays the game...I will take a little more time with it, including more than my usual breaking nooz edits.

But the other channels who were there, partly due to the company lack of PR, will not touch the they tried to squash media and first amendment rights.

So if you think that this will change... not until media at all levels decide to stop playing that game and decide instead to actually ruffle feathers. It used to be that way... in the age of muckraking journalism. But most of it is gone, will come back, I guarantee it. Partly the net is making it easier for people to run nooz sites... but partly... pay attention here... pay in journalism is crashing. Muckrackers were working poor people who identified with the workers they covered. These days the news bunnies are paid fairly well, and have internalized the values of the corporations and the well to do. As pay continues to crash... that will change. And it will probably lead to a more agressive sort of journalsim. This scares them, the powerful that is, like crazy.

There is a solution to that problem... but they will not do it. Pay their people well above average... that coops the system. But if you pay your reporters and video graphers and the rest well, then it's easier for them to see the people on welfare like useless leeches. You don't... well there is this thing called class solidarity and resentment that starts to emerge after some time.