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Re: Two schoolgirls blinded in acid attack in Afghanistan
The money is the agenda. You can write whatever you want, if the editor allows it, but most obviously don't. There are internal rules of conduct in every business, now I don't know exactly what they are in the media, but I think I can make a pretty good guess:
Big advertisers, off limits or downplayed. Broad issues, complexity. Off limits, too confusing, not profitable enough.
Imagine how that's like in a major paper owned by a major conglomerate, where the news are scientifically spun to appeal to the largest amount of people. Consider it when Rupert Murdoch said, a man delivering information to a billion people, that he maliciously tried to sway public opinion in favor of the Iraq war.
Of course there are honorable exceptions all around, in their own right, but it's just that, they are exceptions. Remember were just talking print here, most people get their information from television, and I think we can all agree the situation is far worse in that medium.
Now, I don't say there are any easy solutions to this, but I do think it's a good and healthy topic.
