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The Silence of the Media Lamb

Truth-tellers 'slaughtered', PR fills the gap

Lamb



Summary: There are reasons that are perfectly legitimate to criticise media which is unable and more so unwilling to cover particular scandals for fear that coverage can be detrimental to the media's owners and sponsors

THIS may sound like a broken record, but it isn't. It ought to be said again and again because it is a growing problem if not epidemic. Honest publishers perish, leaving room for lies and revisionism.



"It's not ideal when you have media writing about the media (or bashing the media), but sometimes there's no other choice."The corporate media is failing to do its job. Assuming of course its job was ever to do journalism or reporting. We often complain about it in relation to coverage about the European Patent Office (EPO) -- or lack of coverage thereof. Later they wonder why they go out of business? They refuse to cover issues that everybody talks about. Not to mention the treatment of the Linux Foundation and all the openwashing. The issues which exist and very much prevail aren't necessarily lied about, just ignored. It's a deliberate silence. We've noticed the same thing in Wikipedia, where editors either 'steer clear' of controversy or censor those who don't, unless those editors are actual PR agents of the articles/entries covered.

What can be done about it? Quite frankly, two things: 1) point out the silence or the intentional failure to report and 2) fill the vacuum by speaking about all those issues the media is unwilling to touch. It's not ideal when you have media writing about the media (or bashing the media), but sometimes there's no other choice. "FAIR", for example, being a credible media watchdog for many years, does just that (typically in politics).

We're meanwhile preparing some code to help us tackle shallow/misleading 'reporting'; we recently started the "Openwashing Report" and we have more stuff on the way.

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