Reply #27: A corporate journalist will almost never criticize their owners or their owner's

[Uncle Joe]

primary commercial buying clients, the public good, if the journalist believes in one, will almost always be subjugated to that agenda. There are exceptions, but that's exactly what they are exceptions.

As corporations merged in to ever larger conglomerates, the number of corporate media clients have dwindled as has the varied perspectives of that medium. In search for the dollar first, their reporting and punditry propaganda continually narrowed to the views of an ever diminishing variety of clientele.

The vast majority of bloggers are more independent and thus their opinions, commentary and reporting will be imminently more candid and I believe refreshing, for the most part reflecting their true beliefs.

The Internet contains a wealth of truth and wisdom along with a multitude of lies and propaganda, but I believe the Internet as a whole represents the people, the corporate journalists represent the corporations.

I equate getting my news the old traditional way as swimming in an artificial pool and the Internet as swimming in an ocean. In the first case the sharks won't get you, but you will never see anything else, in the second the world is your oyster.

In short, I believe in surfs up not serfs up.