63 years later, media better or worse?
On this day – March 27 -- in 1947 the Hutchins Commission report
worried that print and broadcast media and motion pictures were being
concentrated among too few corporations.
The report chaired by University of Chicago president Robert M. Hutchins concluded that freedom of the press was in danger.
The commission cautioned against ownership concentration, rising
costs and the media’s preoccupation with sensational news.
It said technology advances made information available to far more
people, but control of the information was getting into the hands of fewer
entities. And that those firms are not providing service adequate to the needs
of society, even engaging in practices that society condemns which could lead
to regulation or control of society.
Who thinks today that America is not under the control of a wealthy
and powerful few?
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