Future? This is the way it has always been, and we have just been fools to believe otherwise. It was only after Saddam Hussein had fallen that we learned that for years CNN had moderated it's news about his regime in order to maintain a presence in the country. Today "access" is still such a big deal in network news, it's extremely likely that many more similar stories of news organizations keeping themselves in check in order to maintain that access could be told today. About regimes, about our own government, about corporations, about powerful individuals.
It's ironic that the news media has advanced so far in attempting to mold themselves as some sort of aloof and apart institution, some form of abstract art with no holds to the mundane world of everyday lives and things. And yet at the same time they have become such big business that they are plugged into, and often complicit with, so many of the power structures of the world.
It's ironic that the news media has advanced so far in attempting to mold themselves as some sort of aloof and apart institution, some form of abstract art with no holds to the mundane world of everyday lives and things. And yet at the same time they have become such big business that they are plugged into, and often complicit with, so many of the power structures of the world.