In the age of instant news, what is news and who decides?

As large multinational corporations dominate the television news business, who decides what is news and why? Is this corporate ownership of the messages the news relays to us or creates for us a new phenomenon?

The simple answer is……… Hell, if you want the simple answer turn on CNN Headline News ( A time Warner Production),and if you want the right wing answer turn on FOX News (A News Corp Production). If  on the other hand, you want the left wing answer turn on MSNBC (A General Electric PRODUCTION). But where is the truth, try the Daily Show a Comedy Central Production, ok its really a VIACOM Production.

So who decides what is news and what is not? 

The answer is buried somewhere in between the multitude of Rihanna and Chris Brown stories and the live high speed chase from Los Angeles.(hint, its not the news broadcast its the commercials)  So, if after watching thirty minutes of cable news you become depressed because it appears that the world is falling apart, relax its not. (Somehow, the car commercial follows the high-speed chase story, and the bad news on the housing market is followed by the latest anti depressant commercial). If it appears as if  the television is talking to you, it may be if you are unstable, but for most of us its not. It’s not the TV thats talking to us its the advertising on the TV. I find it strange that the latest crime statistics are followed as if on queue by a home security system commercial, its because it is on queue.  The reality of the news business is that it is a business, and in the struggle between news and business, well we know who is going to win out. So remember, the cable news networks are in business to sell advertising. So while you may love the opinion from your favorite MSNBC or Fox News anchor, remember it’s not his opinion it’s the networks. Your guy or gal is just reading a teleprompter, for the most part and the messagebeing read is carefully orchestrated to avoid alienating the almighty sponsors, while keeping hold of that target demographic to deliver the best numbers, for the advertisers. 

This is true except for Glen Beck, he is an idiot for calling a half white and half black President, who supports imigration reform, a racist and now twenty advertisers and counting have pulled their sponsorship of his “news” program, if he keeps his job, that my friends will be the news.

So what’s the news, the news is while you were distracted by a football game or some bogus rant on television about gay marriage, the congress passed The Patriot Act, which is so unconstitutional its hilarious, we went to War in Iraq because of Weapons of Mass distraction, and some CEO’s granted themselves another two-hundred billion dollars in cash and stock options for fleecing millions of Americans out of their jobs, health insurance and homes. The real breaking news, is we as a nation are so dysfunctional and undeserving of the liberties our founding fathers risked live and limb for it’s sickening.  We the people have given to these corporations and the frontmen that represent them in congress, all of our individual rights and freedoms and for what?

“Wait the news is on, I have to go.”