Trust in the Age of Diversity and Spin: Analyzed

So basically the only reason I read this article is because it was required for class. It was more interesting than the first article we read in class, but it was boring none the less. I did think that it was a little ironic that the author was writing about how people distrust the media, and he is the media. He was writing about distrusting himself. haha
There was one major fallacy in Michale Hedges article; he states that people do not trust media when it is owned by the government, but he continues to argue that people distrust the media because they are independent corporations. It is true that people disbelieve the media when it is run by the government, because they know that the government will only allow the people to know what the government wants them to know. However, it is not true that people distrust corporate media; people simply listen to what they want to hear, and the companies have realized just that. News is no longer about telling the truth. News is about making money. The companies know that they won't make a profit if the people won't read or listen to a story. They do not withhold information to keep the public ignorant; they simply inform the public of what they want to hear. In an ideal society, the news might contain what is important and the people would read, but our society is not perfect so neither is the media.