DEMAND BETTER!
Corporate media ownership has treated news in America as a comodity to be mass produced at minimum cost.
This treats the news audience as nothing more than consumers, abandoning the trusting relationship that once existed between local newspapers and TV news and their audience.
This reduction of citizens to customers does have a flip side- competion is king in a free market, and the customer is always right.
Even with deminished competition, you, the news consumer, have a right to demand better.
Let these news outlets know what you think, both on the local and national level.
If you don't like the tactics or bias you see, hear and read- say so.
If they don't listen, tell their advertisers.
If their advertisers don't listen, boycott.
You'd be surprised how quickly companies respond when their revenue is threatened.
There are other ways to take action as well.
Write, call or visit your local congressman and senator (find them here) and demand congress take anti-trust action against the media monsters that doll out news and that they put forth new legislation that fosters competition in the media markets.
You can also group up with many of our more passive partners in the media reform movement. They don't really sabotage, destroy or take over anything like the Army, but they're good for staying in the loop and voicing discontent en masse.
