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To: TimF who wrote (483162)	5/25/2009 1:13:35 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574468

Neither "Business" nor "Big Business", nor "Big media business", equals or implies "conservative. Many big businesses are anything but, in terms of the politics they support, the politicians they fund, or esp. the groups they donate money to. I said that many of the owners of media are conservative. Both Disney and GE are known as conservative companies. Businesses aim for their media holdings is primarily to make money. If it makes money for them they usually don't care much about the politics. They might care a bit about direct criticism of the company, and so there might be some bias working against reporting of negative things about the owner (but there is a lot of push back against that as well), but businesses don't generally have a major conservative bias, and public corporations don't generally exert a large degree of pressure on the politics of reporting. That's determined by reporters, editors, producers etc., to a much greater degree than the corporate owner in most cases. Then why did so much of America's media support the invasion of Iraq when it made little sense? Most of Britain's media opposed the invasion and were very vocal about their opposition. American media showed outright support and agreed to be embedded with the army. The American media showed very little independence from the gov't at a critical time in our history.