>>A person well respected in the news business said something interesting the other day. He said that journalism no longer exists. The media is controlled by sponsors.
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>The idea that the media were ever neutral is fairly recent (probably with the advent of electronic media). Go back to, say, the revolutionary period, and look at a few newspaper. No intimation of neutrality. They represented a political point of view.
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>Tamar

We had two newspapers in San Francisco that had political bias. The Chronicle was Democratic and the Examiner was Republican. No question! Today who knows one from the other? The last 20 years have seen great changes in our media.

The Chronicle had a section called “The Sporting Green”. It was all about sports and the paper used was light green. Recently, they changed the paper to white like the rest of the newspaper as well as reduced the physical size of the pages, but they continue to call it “The Sporting Green”. :)