Blogs 8 & 9

Public relations and Journalism have become very morphed together. All journalism can really report is what their corporate office will allow. If they break news on someone who places a expensive advertisement in the paper each week, chances are it will never make it to publish. In the movie it talked a lot about how advertisement and the endorsers of the paper really control what is in it and not the journalists themselves. This i believe is true because you'll never see an advertisement for Subway in the same paper that just published an article on a Subway that was overrun with mice and still is still open. It has become that journalism is less truth and more of what public relations would like to have you know. We also discussed in class about how the journalists are forbidden to have any campaign propaganda on their vehicles or in their yards because it would link the paper to a biased opinion. What happened to freedom of speech if journalists cant even voice their own opinion in their own yard??