2023-05-01
It is well known by now that the major news media companies are not interested in reporting the news, only in making it up to suit their corporate (secret service?) masters.
The events of recent years have brought this sorry state of affairs to the fore, and a new raft of independent media companies have launched to enable the population themselves (those that wish it) to create their own media. But all this takes money and resources, and the funding is ultimately controlled by the same bankers corporates and oligarchs who fund the existing media, now in decline.
So who is actually manoeuvring to profit from and control the new, brash, up-and-coming media? And where are they likely to take it? Will we ever have a truly free and impartial media dedicated to truth? Is such a thing even possible?
Whilst we don't know the answers to all of these questions just now, the indefatigable Amazing Polly has at least begun to prise the lid off this can of worms ...
(40 minutes)
