Fourth Estate Sale

I ran across an article this morning in the San Antonio Current, which is not a mainstream paper, about the media and it's decline as a source of true information for the American public.

Of course this interested me greatly because I write for the local paper, and because I do believe that a free press, unfettered by anything, including the greed of profit, is a true servant of the people.

Unfortunately these days we don't have that, because the folks who own the media are in it for the money, not the truth. Maybe they never have been in it for the truth and maybe it's always been a racket, but I do have an illusion of principle that I hold up there in my head. That principle says, do no harm, tell the truth, do good.

I try to live by that but I don't find that to be the attitude of other people, and that includes other journalists, editors, and publishers.

So without further ado, here is a link to this article. It is in an indictment of the media, not of government, if you're a less-than-discerning reader. (I did have the article sorted out and in my blog, then I block-quoted it and it vanished. I'm out of time now so you're just getting a link, thank you Blogger.)

Fourth Estate Sale