[NLA] Media Alert

[KathleenBombach@aol.com]

Art:
Last year I asked a well-known CNN international correspondent who was visiting El Paso why his stories did not get more coverage. His answer was that they did not 'sell' to the American viewership. I asked him why a story he had on CNN the evening before had elided over some of the more brutal abuses occuring in the international manufacturing plants in Cd. Juarez. Same answer, and the network did not want to include too many nasty details of worker abuses.
Of course, the news outlets all belong now to large multi-national corporations like Sony, Aol-Time Warner, and Rupert Murdoch who have a stake in promoting their own movies, music, products, and corporate philosophy. 
For anyone interested in reading up on media concentration and corporate ownership and the effect it has had on what news stories get coverage, go to www.thenation.com.
Kathleen