We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.
I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.
Having a few companies controlling everything we read, see or hear is destroying our culture.
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.
Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.
There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.
I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.
The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.
I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.