 Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | The professional journalist, freed from any social movement or popular ideology, had already become a mercenary for corporate mass media. The profession eased access to secure employment and to the rich and powerful. The journalists' job was to produce ideas for mass distribution -- either for the state or for the business corporation. Supporting private enterprise was at the very least a recognition that one's job depended on the media owner. Editorial independence meant writers and editors could write whatever they pleased as long as it sold and did not challenge the economic or political foundation of the media enterprise itself. In sum the notion of the independent, truth-finding, investigative journalist is naà ¯ve at best. We must be careful to distinguish between journalists and what John Pilger has called "corporate stenographers'. |
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