Mass news media errs badly in acting on orders it receives to defame or attack some minority group. News media would serve a real purpose if it sought to really dispassionately discover the ideas behind today's conflicts and ignored the jingoisms and catch phrases they are handed.
They are, after all NEWS media, not as they often seem to be, propaganda machines playing a part in psychological warfare.
But, of course, the ideas behind news media itself is to sell papers and get the bills paid. The same private interests behind the Establishment are too often also the backers of the newspapers and so use them to crush the possible competition. And as today newspapers are seldom solvent they think they have to have backers behind them.
The reasons for the decline of newspaper circulation are not hard to find. The public has ceased to believe what they print, sensing that their views are not always disinterested.
Also in stressing controversy and conflict newspapers have not realized that few people beyond sports fans like to witness fights. The public today finds newspapers above the level of their ability to confront. So they don't buy so many newspapers.
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