Universities Arent Stepping Up to the Plate..

Media monopolies have found a number of allies in there race to conquer democracy and worship capitalism, and unfortunatly colleges just will not step up to the plate and demand media reform. Thousands of departments within the schools of journalism are established through commercial media and rely on these close relationships to survive.

McChesney points us to John DeMotts work published in a trade publication:
"We all now, whether we're candid enough to acknowledge it or not, that the advertising, news and public relations industry that provide employment for out students--plus other benefits expect us to follow the "company line" on issues involving the special interests of mass media."

McChesney reports that these departments of journalism have had little difficulty accepting the, "corporate line that attacks on a corporate media are attacks on a free press. Generations of students have been and are being trained that this is the best possible and only conceivable media system available to the U.S. people. The issue is generally not even open to contemplation."

The press was created to secure democracy. If that isnt happening. We as a society are no longer living in a democracy. Take this seriously, I want my readers to truly understand the crisis at hand. Commercialism is out of control, and the press has forgotten its purpose. Decommercializing is essential here. Democracy isnt a commercial.

McChesney further outlines the pressures universities face to support these media monopolies, and "link education and research explicitly to the needs of business...The stars on campus are the departments and individuals who attract the most grant money, and departments and scholars who fail to do so face an uncertain future."

"The lesson of the last fifty years on U.S. campuses is clear. If the field of communication does not do it, nobody else will. It will make for a rocky road, but what other choice is there."