From printing all news, to corporate 'news fit to print' ...

[FrankGSterleJr]

Over the last 25 years of fairly-thorough consumption of community and metro-daily newspapers, I’ve noticed an implicit though unmistakable shift in editorial coverage, from one of focus mostly on both social and serious environmental responsibility, to one mostly of Corporate-owner interest through often-obvious manipulation (e.g. supportive coverage to corporate-tax cutter politicians/parties and, of course, vice versa). Really, do people actually erroneously believe that they’re called “opinion-makers” all for naught; they even refer to other opinion-maker colleagues as such.
Thus we now have overwhelming coverage in Western metro-dailies about economic and job growth all basically outweighing every other issue, with eco-system best-interests too-often made the very least of societal priorities.
Yet, on top of all of this is the silencing of such observations which, if published, would come mostly as letters-to-the-editor.
So just give them enough time and follow the opinion polling closely on certain controversial social and, particularly, eco-hazardous-project issues—especially environmentally-precarious and big-industry-profitable natural-resource-extraction and/or -transit projects—and you’ll likely notice that following manipulative news-media editorial support (a.k.a. news-media consumer re-education) for mineral extraction projects with little concern for sensitive ecosystems will be closely followed by an increase in public support.
Now that’s some co-incidence, ain’t it!
Perhaps one can comprehend the above-mentioned via the proverbial tree falling in the woods where no person is present; though with such perhaps-rare missive as this going absolutely nowhere but immediately to the bottom of editors’ e-mail-software recycling bins where it definitely doesn’t make a sound.