[darren0]

It's somewhat ironic that you can't even trust this article. There's an obvious bias towards a "power struggle" view of the world's problems. The issue with the current state of affairs is essentially assumed to be because of billionaires and corporate consolidation. The solution presented is then to give more power to the people. Neither point is substantiated by fact.

One could just as easily argue that the state of the media is due to a failure to adapt to the internet in which blogs, Twitter, and social media become peoples primary source of information. So the "power of the people" could have in fact caused this issue. This also being a conjecture.

The only point in this article that is well substantiated is that trust in media is low and I feel this article is perfectly on trend.

[pixl97]

Its generally thought that trust in media was dropping before the advent of the blog. Massive consolidation in the media industry along with the event of 24 hour news where something had to fill the channel at all times is considered a precursor to the situation we are in.