Media Masters

It's been a means of contention in the last ten years, the status of the media, and just how much journalism has changed. Mind you all, change is not always a bad thing, but in this exclusive example, change has not been so kind.

Journalism, especially in the states, has been bent to heed the master, or masters. This, ironically, is not news, but the feats and the lying that have led to this point, are. The supreme masters, as education and experience have taught us, are the almighty dollar, for which without it, there would be no news, the governing leaders, for without them, we would be free to report and account the happenings of the world as we see fit, and finally, ourselves. We are the makers of news, the recorders of news, and the consumers of news, and yet we like to point fingers at the journalists for biasing and spinning the news to fit their masters.

A journalist in the United States might lose their credibility within a news agency, if they maintain anything that might even be remotely leftist bias. The opposite is true in Canada, a right-wing journalist might be shunned by their media if it so eschews the Conservative beliefs.

If the government deems certain types of news as unbeneficial to the public, despite our freedoms of the media, they can blind our eyes and plug our ears. It is their power as a government, and while such powers were invested with protection and safety in mind, their use has been usurped to new levels of misuse and self-servience in the last ten years. As the media, we bend to our masters, for they are out livelihood, but which master we kneel to is our choice to make. If the government demands our silence, but the public cry out for truth, it should be a non-choice to which side the media will sway. If money is tight, and both the government and the majority of people are of a like mind, we will heel... as is our job, and our only means of making a living.

Remember this, dear reader. If ever you are outraged by what you read in the paper, or see on the television, it is you for which it was made, sanitized, and portrayed. It is also you who contribute to this form media, such as it is, and it is for you whom we work hard to please. If you are outraged by such a horrible bias, speak out. Criticize the other masters, the government, the money-holders... we, the media, are listening, and if your message is strong, then you become our new master, and we will yield to you.

We are but the fish in the river, and the currents of government and money dictate where we swim. You, the reader, are the dam-master, and the keeper of the river. While you slumber, the currents choose their own path. If you should rise and command it of the water, it's current will shift to your will, and we will have but one choice, and that is to follow.