The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.
The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.
The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.
PBS was not a left-wing ideology. I mean, Air America was, but PBS was not. But anybody who tells the truth is now branded and marginalized. The devolution of the American press began in 1986 when Ronald Reagan abolished the fairness doctrine.
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.