Monday, June 16, 2008
RFK Jr. warns Canadians about corporate media
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By Jenn Watt
When U.S. President Ronald Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine in 1988, he killed a piece of American democracy, says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The duty to inform was taken from the media and replaced with the aims of corporations, to deliver people to advertising and to hell with balance, fairness and critical thinking.
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"Today as a result of that [the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine] there are five major corporations that control 14,000 radio stations in the United States. All 2,200 TV stations," he said.
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"When I was a kid there used to be 47 foreign news bureaus just in Europe. Today they have none. You buy news from a can. We're supposed to be leaders of the free world, but we have no clue what's happening in the free world," he said.
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