[MGP-Forum Announce] Should Corporations Control Communications?

[Tish Grier]

Hi Everyone,

The following piece by Jeffrey Chester in The Nation
dovetails, and supports, many of Steve's (very
important) contentions:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061030/chester

if you've been an observer of the MySpace phenomenon
alone, you can chart how things have changed within
that space since Murdoch took over.  Recently, I've
received a number of spam "invitations" from
MySpace--will be posting on it at my blog later in the
day...

oddly, a short time ago, when YouTube started creating
"channels" that exist simply as advertisements that
then contain other advertisements, the folks who did
this justified it by saying "oh, young people think
it's just great content, they don't care that it's an
ad..." (see
http://media.corante.com/editorial/archives/2006/08/youtube_will_soon_feature_ads.php)

is it that they don't care, or don't know the
difference?  And are young folks the only ones who
can't make the distinction between "kick-ass content"
and aggressive "brainwashing" by special interests?

Tish G.
http://media.corante.com
http://spap-oop.blogspot.com

--- steve at coanews.org wrote:

> I recently wrote an article questioning the
> corporate control of  
> online participatroy communications.
> 
> You can read it here
>
http://www.coanews.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=1332
> 
> I'm sure that many do not agree with my point of
> view, so feel free to  
> post a comments below the article, or reply to this.
> 
> My hope is that this will open up some space for
> debate about this  
> issue, I'm especially hoping that bloggers and
> others involved  
> participatory media will chime in.
> 
> best,
> Steve
> 
> 
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