You make good points but let's remember this slice of Yellow Journalism history:
-The most famous example of a claim is the apocryphal story that artist Frederic Remington telegrammed Hearst to tell him all was quiet in Cuba and "There will be no war." Hearst responded "Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." Historians now believe that no such telegrams ever were sent.-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
"Historians now believe no such telegrams were ever sent." Well, that's to be expected, correct? For the boast of a powerful media baron at his ability to leverage the US Government and the American people into war is kind of a smoking gun isn't it in terms of the purpose of Mass Media?
The goal of Mass Media ... print, cable, network ... is all the same, to social engineer the population into supporting positions of the ruling class. A network that is owned by a War Contractor is going to be pro-War. A network that is owned by a corporation that is in the Nuclear Industry isn't going to highlight problems at Nuclear Power Plants.
No mass media corporation is in the "Truth" delivery business, it's focused on population herding. That herding can be overt, like in the case of Fox "News", or it can be passive like network news ... but it's always about herding people for the benefit of the elite owners behind the media.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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