Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Corporate Cares

I was listening to Bill Handel today, whose remarks are often far more obscene, racist, and offensive than were Don Imus' on his fateful day of reference to a group of female collegiate athletes. This begs the question "why are some shock jocks able to spew their 'comedic' rhetoric and not others." I think in the end its all about the money. Corporate America doesn't care if it offends; sadly, it only cares if it loses Adversitement funding.

1 comment:

BC said...

Sounds like part of Chomsky & Herman's "Propaganda Model". One very clear and readable critic of media is Jeff Cohen at http://www.jeffcohen.org/. Jeff started FAIR , Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a few decades ago, and his critiques have been sharpening and extending ever since I first heard him back in '79 or so.