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Now, I may call anything on TV, the movie screen, the small screens of handheld gadgets "distractainment" but the media is the single most important tool we have to inform and protect ourselves. I call it "distractainment" because, generally, that's what most of the mainstream media has become. Even the news media is more about entertainment than it is about hard news and that means both the news and regular TV shows serve only to distract us and not inform us.

What I'd love to see happen is for the media (all of it, everything from TV, to movies, to gadgets and anything else) get seriously reformed. Fictional TV shows need to stop pandering, non-fictional shows need to do the same. In fact, so do movies and video games and so on. However, it seems like the companies that provide programming for these various "screens" are not bothering to think above the lowest common denominator.

Whether it's the new law hiking song royalties (putting indy radio stations on the air and on the web out of business) or the magazine postage hike (putting indy print magazines out of business--seeing the trend?)--it seems like Big Business is determining everything we see and therefore everything we can know.

So, where do you learn about the machinations of these big media companies? Check out FreePress.Net. As I type this, I can see the following stories covered on their main page: The magazine postage hike, 'net neutrality, the iPhone being locked to one carrier, and saving Internet radio.

Check out FreePress.Net today and learn about how big media businesses are shaping how you see the world. .

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