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jeff cohen witness the founder fair-haired outward form a producer for
the donahue show professor Asia
independent media you ever directed founding director the Help Center for
Independent Media professor
a at associate professor if your college of Europe cable news confidential my
misadventures in corporate media
and we have and media changing right in front of us right now
just another jeff has but the Washington Post Jeff bass a snowy
CEO and founder of Amazon you're finding that that they value of newspapers has
gone down in these billionaires
can pick up these newspapers for a song and tonight and personal why has the
value of newspapers collapsed
and that's a long story but initially
up until even into the last decade newspapers were hugely profitable
why has a few companies took them over
chain Mrk
started laying of journalists way before the Internet was a problem they were
laying off journalist newspapers unlike other businesses were getting twenty
percent profit margins
in and so newspapers were we can't
in this country worse than other countries and
because a corporate greed and then the internet came along
and they were double-whammy I love corporate greed and the Internet taking
away revenue especially
classified ad revenue thats through Craigslist and things like that
and other revenue taking away readers that 12 whammy in the price if the
newspapers has gone down The Boston Globe sold and I don't 15-20 years ago
for about a billion dollars in and what it just sell for less like something
like
$75 million want it all
on so not by a depreciating asset but so
Jeff pesos is a guy a at
who wants power all of these Internet companies the best book on this is did
you
the digital disconnect by Robert W mcchesney
in all about how a few corporations now are taking over the internet was not bad
pictures yes program many times and i really I
and none of these guys is just pesos and Amazon
I he's he's worth a $28 billion
and so he spent less than one percent of his fortune to pick up the washington
post in cash
but basis is a guy who always liberal on social issues and supports a
gay marriage he's very conservative on any economic issue that directly affects
his pocketbook in the pocket book I've
Amazon she's very conservative in education policy very conservative and
tax policy
and and the issue that I believe the mainstream media does worse I N
which is the welfare state or were first last survey much take
Jeff pesos Amazon company has just brought down a 600
million dollar contract to provide cloud services for the CIA
their perverted the surveillance state so wait a minute that
the company Amazon bed
was started by is principally owned by Jeff basis the guy who just bought the
Washington Post
is a CIA contractor yes the time
big-time and and have a big investment and the
military industrial security complex as
getting bigger and bigger wash imposed as arguably the most influential
newspaper in the United States when it comes to policy made here in washington
DC
yes so I mean again people were talking about
and always pays as cataract the project mystic tradition the Washington Post
that traditions been going downhill for a long time
and with some exceptions Dana priest has been no wonderful and somebody's
national security issue she exposed her a
Walter Reed Hospital abuse and she exposed the black guy
presence the secret prisons that regard to the war on terror
but you know if there's exceptions to the rule but general washington post
this been going downhill
the editorial page editor Fred Hiatt sees itself as pair that warfare state
and they were big cheerleaders for the invasion of Iraq
editorial after editorial in the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq
so the washington Post staff today is very different than the washing
post-watergate
the pentagon papers which was forty years ago but bases is now the new owner
he's paid to the surveillance state all of the owners are problematic
I mean you don't have all the newspapers all the major media
I mean they all have these powerful interests there's almost nowadays
story that you can hear reported on ABC World News Tonight or NBC Nightly News
or CBS Evening News
that their owner doesn't have a direct interest in trade policy
tax policy Union policy Amazon is viciously anti-union
is this why the media and never talks about
how our trade policy has has destroyed the middle class it doesn't
it never talks about you know the car check anathema
and as you mentioned card check you know that the ability of people to unionize
that would be simply by saying yes a majority more than 50 percent I'm saying
yes i'd like a union
at and which is bad used to be always honored I haven't seen a single mention
that in at least a year and had to be helped bridge have union policy
labor policy workers rights workers conditions trade policy
those are some business in facing their worst issues in the mainstream media
if you go to fair .org you'll see a critique he almost on a monthly basis of
how the mainstream media covers are doesn't cover those issues
yeah an fact if anything to celebrate you know what's coming to her
ok black we've I've written volumes about the New York Times coverage a
free-trade
mean and yell free trade is good free trade is good free trade is good
yeah history and was knowing that was literally a lead up a new story
the trade is good if you hear it long enough you will begin to say can that
was a new story
all and yeah at their there a paper that is editorialized that how great
sweatshops are as first
you know first two jobs for people that are struggling and
that have come to the cities and developing countries most in the major
press has celebrated
I these trade agreements that have been so bad for their the Americans
environment in them
and the middle class here and frankly for working people overseas
mom but yeah if that's why I believe
because it's the failure of the mainstream media that's built the
independent media
so many people turned off to mainstream media because that their failures to get
the facts straight in the invasion of Iraq
and then on some of these issues that you crusade on her campaign on
like trade like workers rights like the middle class a
you know economic security these are issues that the mainstream corporate
media out to lunch and
and and I think when people do realize there's an alternative
they flock to it in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq where the mainstream
networks and I was working on MSNBC which is
cheerleading for that war people were turning onto BBC
yeah you know they're known as many alternatives in 2002
well now there aren't Amy goodman: show has just flown since 2002
because the failures a mainstream media I and i was when she started the war and
peace report netlist yeah
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