I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.
The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.
There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.
I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room.
The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.
The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.