Corporately funded news

As journalist and people we have a morality to uphold when it comes to telling the truth about the news. There are many implications involving corporately funded news for instance, the public is given false information on what the news is conveying. Corporately funded news may also contain bias. Conglomerate is a term where a company owns different types of corporations, so we see what they want us to see. For example if a company owned CNN, Fox, and Toronto Star then these 3 major outlets of news would hold bias because the company that owns these outlets of news may only shows us what they want us to know and may hold true to a certain angle or side.
I’m sure we are all aware of a certain celebrity blogger by the name of Perez Hilton. Now I love Perez Hilton and all, but I know that he may not always be right. A couple years ago Perez Hilton claimed on his blog that Fidel Castro had died; he was the president of Cuba. Perezhilton.com being so successful that many readers believed what he had written. Of course when you hear this you believe it’s true? I mean it’s Perez Hilton, but later on did we find out that in fact Fidel Castro was not dead that Perez himself was given faulty facts. This comes to show that not everything you hear or read about is necessarily true just because the source may seem trustworthy or may hold a valuable reputation.

This brings us to another type of corporately funded news which includes Entertainment. Do you pass by stores and notice magazine headlines that just sound so outrageous and crazy. Why is it that these tabloids are able to print such false news and fabricated argument’s and still people believe every word of it as if it were being said by CNN or BBC. By reading such false news people lose sight of what is real news.

So, there are many different serious news that are corporately funded but I choose to talk more about the entertainment side just because more people are able to relate it back to them. We all know we love Hollywood and every time we pass the checkout counter we just walk slowly to read the new leads from People magazine or Ok. We just need to know how it affects us.

Work cited

Corporate-funded studies a concern. Mer Eckstut, 30 Oct. 2003.10 Oct. 2009. http://thedp.com/node/40538