However , i feel that one positive point being left out is how blogging and some news feeds provide something unprecedented in our system of news :no strings attached.
There is obviously less revenue when dealing with these things , bloggers (while often unreliable) report news for free. No one is paying these internet journalists and so there is no one to tell them what they can and cannot report.
As we saw in the documentary on milk hormones , the big names that fund the news stations have a heavy hand in what is and isn't being revealed. They can kill any story that they think will be bad for their business. The corruption of money has seeped into every pore of T.V news programs and newspapers.
So while you often run into the risk of false information in blogs and free news feeds , you are without the puppet strings of funding. If you find a blogger that proves themselves to be an actually intelligent well informed source of information you can be pretty sure that no one is going to force them to withhold that information from you or alter it for commercial reasons.
In this way the revenue free news system is beneficial to us as a public. Less censorship will yield better warnings and is the pathway to a more enlightened audience.
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