Why Independent Media Matters with Jordan Chariton
The Marianne Williamson Podcast
Marianne Williamson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Status Coup's Jordan Chariton can be found at some of the most important events of the last decade. His on-the-ground reporting from Flint, Standing Rock and the 2020 BLM protests among others brings us the in-depth coverage the corporate media ignores. So why is his material being suppressed? Jordan and Marianne sit-down to discuss the state of the news media, how big tech squashes independent outlets while propping up corporate behemoths and the importance of independent media.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the Marianne Williamson podcast. I have someone very special to introduce you to my guest Jordan Sheraton before we have our conversation. I want to say a few things. |
| 0:10.0 | I know this is kind of hard to believe, but when I was growing up, we did not hate the media. |
| 0:16.0 | We actually trusted the media in this country and we did believe and for some good reasons that we had basically fair reporting. |
| 0:24.0 | There was a fairness doctrine. We knew that there were people who were not just in it for the money. |
| 0:30.0 | News was not about an economic bottom line. It was actually about informing and educating the public. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm not romanticizing anything here. I'm not saying it was perfect. Obviously, as you can imagine, racial issues, criminal justice issues, even then, etc. |
| 0:45.0 | There were many things that should have been discussed that I'm sure were not. |
| 0:48.0 | But what started to happen in the 1980s took things in a far worse direction. |
| 0:53.0 | First of all, the elimination of the fairness doctrine so that a news reporting agency no longer had the legal responsibility to present both sides of an argument. |
| 1:04.0 | And then in 1996, Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act that led to the corporate conglomeratization of the news media. |
| 1:14.0 | That's why we call it now mainstream media. |
| 1:18.0 | When I was a kid, the same company could not own the newspaper and the television station and the radio station because the diversity of opinion was actually valued, institutionally valued. |
| 1:32.0 | In fact, there were news organizations and television stations where people who were in news and people who were in sales. |
| 1:40.0 | They were not on the same floor of the building and the two floors that was nowhere that the elevator went to both stops. |
| 1:47.0 | All that burst open with the Telecommunications Act. |
| 1:51.0 | Now there are a few companies that almost of the mainstream news and they are in it for profit. |
| 1:58.0 | And we know what has happened because of this. |
| 2:01.0 | And we know now that people are correct, they are legitimate in their resentment of the media. |
| 2:07.0 | Because of how often the media does more to stir the pot and make us hate each other than it does to actually inform us. |
| 2:14.0 | You know, there's all this talk about what's left and what's right. |
| 2:18.0 | There was a wonderful book by Matt Taib called Hate Inc. |
| 2:21.0 | He actually traces historically how all of this came to be. |
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