Interested in what’s going on uptown today, I take a gander at IndyMedia. Lies, damn lies, and propaganda. There’s a piece on the much-discussed WSJ editorial solicitation, framed as another example of manipulation in corporate media. Hypocrisy: IndyMedia promotes, and then covers the F15 marches. Instead of responding to the City’s injunction by “planning dozens of unpermitted feeder marches,” these marches were planned well ahead of the City’s injunction, and I imagine that they’re still be staged out of inertia and bad organization, not as a response to anything the City has done.
Indy Media Wastes My Time
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a technology job is no excuse 
The current state of The News is embarrassing, but I see no way out. With reporting having become such huge business, ratings make or break advertising deals. And, without one-ups-manship and sensationalism, there is no way to afford the multi-million dollar contracts for the top tier anchors. We have lost journalists and replaced them with entertainers. Independent media are caught in the same struggle and must resort to the same tactics, not to pay their reports, but just to be heard once before dying.
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Indy Media Watch – http://indymediawatch.blogspot.com
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