The media doesn't have the right to destroy people's reputations, with insinuations or with blatant lies.
The media doesn't have the right to encourage people to commit crime, whether that encouragement is explicit or not.
Government has checks and balances. Businesses have laws, regulations and standards of ethics. People have rights and responsibilities. These are all descriptions of the same things, and the terms that describe them work for individuals and for groups throughout society.
A democracy is not about having all rights and no responsibilities, or about some people having all the rights and other people having all the responsibilities.
There are so many things wrong with the general standards for the media now that I don't even know how to describe them all. A total lack of concern for how destructive it is, which often turns to obvious enjoyment of causing people harm for no reason, characterizes a lot of the media.
It is a perversion of journalism to use it to hurt people for no reason, to violate them, to undermine the stability of society with encouragement of crime.
A few years ago, the media was stridently demanding government transparency. It stopped doing that when the conglomerate formed and began its unofficial campaign for violence against women and children all around the world. People who are campaigning to legalize crimes are loath to say what they mean until they think they have so desensitized their audience to their goals that they can spell everything out without fear of repercussions.
Where is the media transparency? The media tends to be corporate and also financially intertwined with other corporations. Where are the news stories about how the business that's telling people what to think profits from getting them to think it?
Copyright L. Kochman, September 11, 2014 @ 6:29 p.m.
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