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Media Literacy Essay
By Jason Barnett
In this essay I will discuss corporate ownership of the media, who owns these media outlets, and there tools of deceiving the public. There is a great group out there called "Project Censored" and this group "shows important news stories that aren't being covered properly" (project censored.org) "Every year for the past three decades, Sonoma State University's Department of Sociology has produced a powerful little book called "Project Censored", reporting on the "top 25" censored stories ignored or suppressed by our corporately-owned commercially-financed mainstream culture of "news". (Project Censored 2006). Why is this? It is because of what they call "Junk food news" (http://www.answers.com/topic/junk-food-news); news that has no relevance to anything but trying to sell us more cars or just fill our minds with filler. "The "Junk News" section reminds us what stories dominated the headlines, Ashton and Demi, the Michael Jackson imbroglio, etc. – no need to remind you of them
As the United States enters the 21st century, however, its third century as a so-called constitutional Republic, most mainstream American journalists, out of fear, ignorance, or denial, refuse to acknowledge a simple fact about our great country. The state of our "news" culture is deeply troubling. The United States is now the most powerful Empire in the world. And, as citizens of the most powerful Empire in world history, Americans had better know what the hell is going on. But when it comes to "news," Americans live in one of the most heavily censored societies in the world. We've got dozens of television stations, hundreds of magazines, thousands of radio stations, millions of web sites. Pay no attention to the fact that most Americans surveyed...
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