Corporate Media vs. Democratization of Journalism

"As the companies duel, countries and communities often find themselves in the crossfire. Like all conflicts, the media war leaves a trail of victims and marginalised peoples."

Corporate media is a term which refers to a system of mass media production, distribution, ownership, and funding which is dominated by corporations and their CEOs.

Corporate media is projected through companies like NBC, ABC, New York Times, etc.

The problem with corporate media is that it is completely filtered for your ears and eyes. Take the New York Times for example. One of the most powerful jobs in this company is the Editor. The editor is who chooses what stories get published. If in New York, the mayor is buying drugs, gambling and buying prostitutes, we won't hear of it, even though we don't a man like that running our city. There are reasons why we will never learn about him and one is because of the editor. If you were the mayor of a city, wouldn't you befriend the person that could make or break your image? Basically, the corporate media shows only what they want you to see, not what you want to see.

Democratization of Journalism is a term which refers to the modern mass of media spread. The news may tell you one thing, but the freedom of the internet now allows us to permit new, closer and deeper access to more "efficient" information. So in the same picture as the editor and the mayor, someone perhaps caught or took a picture of the mayor handling his dirty work.

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