Kara Miller, an instructor on media issues at Babson College in Massachusetts, writes in her Culture Club blog at Boston.com about conflicts of interest in the media. Her focus is on the intersection between media coverage and sponsorship of media outlets.
She concludes:
Commercials, certainly, are not new to news shows. But there is something vaguely disturbing about integrating corporate logos into newscasts in 2010. What if Rachel Maddow wanted to report on Cisco? Or CNBC detected corruption within the ranks of Charles Schwab? Would they hesitate to expose those who make their shows possible?
With apologies to Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas: bias, for lack of a better word, is good.
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The Disruption of the Media World
by Chip Griffin on May 26, 2010
The ever-changing technological world we live in continues to force content creators and distributors to innovate in order to effectively reach media consumers. Pressure comes from many different directions to accelerate the rate of change and adaptation. [click to continue…]
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