Media's lack of social responsibility

Thoughts to Ponder

From Mediaaah! http://mediaah.blogspot.com/2004/01/nwmi-annual-meet-women-journos-deplore.html

"While most participants were clearly unhappy with the media’s apparently diminishing sense of social responsibility, the promotion of consumerist values in the media, the predominance of celebrity and lifestyle journalism, and the individual success story orientation of the minimal coverage given to serious issues, several of them also highlighted the need to acknowledge and build on the few positive developments that had taken place in recent years, especially with respect to media coverage of at least some issues relating to gender."