Media Journal #1

It's taken me a while to write this because the media has been letting me down quite often recently. As of this semester I have changed my area of study to English Communications and I'm already having second thoughts about it. Those who work in the media are supposed to be noble defenders of Truth, and I spell it with a capital 'T' because I'm not talking about just facts, but an honest, candid vision of justice and integrity. But everywhere I look, I see those in the media abusing their positions in order to promote their narrow minded views. I'm not referring to a specific political party or other type of affiliation, I mean that nobody, not a single person who commands the attention of the masses is doing the right thing right now. Since when did journalism become a profession of deception, madness, and cheap tricks?

I feel like I'm wasting my time everyday that I read the newspaper or the news online. If you were to go to cnn.com right now, all you would find are pointless stories about freak incidents or mindless speculation on the political climate. The problem is that we're so used to this kind of representation in the media that we have come to believe that this is what its all about. Granted, there are some honest truth seekers out there, but the majority would have us believe that they're reporting with our best interests in mind when they are really just puppets of those in power.
There is a real problem with the structure of our society today and the place of media in it. What I want to see is somebody taking a stand for what they believe is right and doing it right now! Enough of this cowardly bullshit of anonymous telephone interviews are retaliation against employers after you already get fired. Speak out while you're on the air, when you really have everyone's attention. Forget about the consequences you'll face, you may lose your job, you may get a lawsuit, you may even go to jail, but something needs to be done and it needs to be done on the "Corporation's" time so that maybe they'll get the message that people are fed up with they way they are handling things. I know not even CEO's can be perfect, but they are in a position of power and its about time they make up for they're utter lack of accountability.