>>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 media decides what will be said and how it will be reported. A meeting is held at the beginning of the week to decide what top two or three stories will be reported.

The runaway bride syndrome affects them first. They just spread it. The new bosses explained their new job description: it's not publishing news anymore, it's selling ad space by filling the remaining space with eye-catchers.

Someone should do a cover of "kako je lepo biti glup", and then have everyone analyze it as homework, with the emphasis on the two most important lines

"šta te briga šta ti rade
ko te laže, ko te krade
kako je lepo biti glup"

(what do you care what are doing to you
who lies to you, who steals from you
how beautiful it is to be stupid)

>I watched one show recently which had an ex-media executive talking exactly about this news-fixing. Just like big banks here (and perhaps elsewhere) maintain undeclared (is illegal) cartel where they discuss/agree market rates etc.
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>While in case of banks you still get your loan
>(at somewhat elevated price / brutal fee charges)
>in case of big news channels, instead of real news you get b-class soap style entertainment. It became simply disquisting.
>[ I have to apologise to soap-opera makers for this unfair comparison! ]

Don't. Apologize, I mean. They are part of the same machine.

"niko od nas pojma nema
da smo davno u mašini"
(none of us has any idea
that we are long time in the machine)

>Someone here slammed idea of having state (tax) sponsored news channels because they go against free market ideals, but when you look at (global) effects and consequences of missinformation/manipulation that bundled big news corporations are dispensing on unsuspecting audiences, I don't see
>it as all that bad idea. More like a 'good start' :)

It's about time they got some competition. Competition is good for business.

More homework: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition