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Originally Posted by Miss Tick
Eric Boehlert calls out media for failing to cover SOPA
Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert appeared Monday on The Young Turks to discuss the fact that the highly controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was absent from mainstream television news coverage.
Major media outlets, including ABC, CBS, Comcast/NBC, Viacom, News Corporation and Time Warner, support the legislation. It would allow authorities to block websites accused of copyright infringement.
“There’s a clear conflict of interest,” Boehlert pointed out. “And that’s fine, news companies often have to deal with these conflicts of interest.”
“They’re part of a larger corporate entity and their is going to be these conflicts. So if you have a conflict you think you’d go out of your way to tell everyone about the conflict and to report on it.”
“In this case, unfortunately what we’ve seen is basically that there has been no coverage,” he said, adding that the only coverage has appeared online.
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I'm glad you posted this article about SOPA.
I bet a fav professor of mine is hot on the trail of this issue: I have a good idea why they're being so tight lipped about it but when I do a bit more research on this subject, I think I will find out some things that will piss me the f^ck off.
You know what really upsets me most about things like this?
People are in this industry for a reason;
and they collect a salary that keeps them from falling off the grid in society and when your ability to earn a living is threatened, more than likely, in my estimation, the ordinary person will not call them out on what they're doing.
I'll be quiet for now, but I promise to come back when I learn a few more things. ~D