Corporate Media and The "News"

Do not expect to get an honest portrayal of The SPP (or of any other topic) from the corporate/mainstream media. As shown in the book/documentary Manufacturing Consent, the corporate media's not only fails to inform the public, they often intentionally misinform the public. They use many techniques to do this including but not limited to: omitting details, downplaying details, distraction, degradation and outright lies.

One third of the CIA's budget is for propaganda and that includes employing and funding thousands of journalists.
The United States ranks 48th in the world for freedom of the press.

If you believe the Canadian corporate media can be trusted then please read Asper Nation.

Read the Top 25 Censored Stories and you will see what a truly miserable job the corporate media is doing.  

This Globe and Mail story fails to mention the real reason provinces are moving to ban pesticides: the run off is contributing to the death of the oceans.

CBC Parrots Tory Talking Points; gives Tory spokesperson air-time but not opposition parties.

Listen to Dan Rather talk about the problem of a profit-driven, corporate-controlled media:
 


A documentary that exposes both America's motto "might makes right" and the media's complicity is The Panama Deception. The huge difference between what the media reported during the 1989 US invasion and what really happened is shocking.

One of the greatest distortions in the corporate media has been one-sided reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Do you want to know what is really happening?

Despite a lack of credibility, the corporate media has for years given oil-industry backed climate-deniers equal time. And when was the last time you heard the corporate media mention the Iraqi civilian death toll, now over one million.

The corporate-controlled media is possibly the greatest obstacle to positive change.