"...corporate journalism is rotten at the core..."

So is "corporate" anything: education, medicine, transportation, and corporate government.
There now exists hardly a mindset-- or "habit of thought" as we used to call it when slivers of thought were discernible in our great land--than the corporate one.
Beside corporate control and the snake oil spirituality that is meant to comfort us as we march down the dark mountain, what do we have?
A few dreamers and nice folks, neither group knowing what, if anything, can be done. So, most swallow the snake oil--which is like putting oil of clove on a bad tooth. The tooth will have to be pulled.
And who's gonna pull the corporate teeth?
Nobody.
Who will be around if/when they fall out eventually?

In the Corporate State, corporat media are the State Media.

Parry has written three terrific books which you can buy through his website and some of the money then goes to support Consortium News. That's another way you can help out and get some great reading material as well.

Has anyone tried a class action lawsuit against media outlets? That should
work. Clearly their lies cost us money.

Re the Times article, Democracy Now yesterday made the point that the article was mostly about the Pentagon actions, not the actions of the media in being so willing to hire the ex-generals and welcome everything word they had to offer. The guy talking (see the segment at www.democracynow.org for Tuesday) said that the Pentagon did what you would expect the Pentagon to do (though that doesn't make them any less criminal), but it's the media who deserve the bulk of our contempt for their total abdication of anything remotely resembling responsible journalism.

But what does the public want from the(print) media?
Sports, weather, movie starlet scandals, highway woes, the occasional exposure of a local or national politician, and editorials pretending to stand up for "the little guy" at the gas pump or the supermarket.
But "the system," why that's as sacred as those founding fathers or their successors, Jack Welch and Bill Gates. Capitalism is democracy, the market is freedom. Anything else, don't know and must be "Un-American."
Tearing down the house Wall Street and GE built is unthinkable. Until that changes, fuggedaboutit.

Redefine corporations as political action groups instead of counting them as persons. (they all seem to have a political adgenda)

That'll be easy to do, Mike.

Mike, mebbe we should also quit pretending there's any practical difference between politics and economics, too.

And I want a pony...

konopelli/wqq: I didn't realize there was a difference.

Ecconomics is the politics of YOUR money. (and vice versa)

"Has anyone tried a class action lawsuit against media outlets? That should work. Clearly their lies cost us money."

Problem is that the most corrupt area of our society is the legal system. They make the media seem honest. And their corruption underlies everything, and blocks all attempts to reform anything. A start would be to limit legal fees. For instance, virtually all other nations limit lawyers to receiving no more than 10% of any settlements. Ain't gonna happen though. All of the most powerful and most corrupt politicians are lawyers, especially the Democrats. The Clintons, Kerry, Gore, Kennedy, et al. Obama too much as I hate having to point that out. They aren't going to do anything.

I'm afraid that I have to agree with Parry, and that the system simply "can’t be reformed, that it is beyond hope." It goes way beyond the media though. That's just a symptom of something much broader. I don't see any alternative but to entirely bring an end to the First American Republic, dissolve the Union, give all power back to the states and start all over from the beginning. That'll happen eventually, but only as a result of total collapse and/or military defeat. We'll have to touch bottom before we can start rising again. I expect to see that in my lifetime though, and I'm in my 50s.