View from the East

Aliran has a blog about Malaysian media. This entry concerns development journalism:

"So, what then can we say is the real problem with Western mainstream media? Actually, the answers can be obtained from many in the West itself -- people like Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Robert McChesney, Stuart Hall, etc. These western critics have by and large stated that the problem with the Western mainstream media is they are hypocritical or not practising what they preach. They have the constitutional rights to be as free and independent a media as they can be but they have used that primarily to make as large a profit as possible. Thus the sensationalistic bent and the inclination towards conservative politics (which, among other things, supports big business) have become hallmarks of Western mainstream media."