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When four corporations (Viacom, Disney, AOL Time-Warner and Rupert Murdoch) concentrate 90% of the production of newspapers, radios, TVs, theaters and movies, there's no possibility of democracy at the media. In Brazil, six groups control 667 TV and radio stations. The short time we spend working, allyed with our studies of communication, has been enough to make us notice the information produced tehre is manipulated and poisoned in accordance with interests others than the society ones. 

The mass media vehicles of communication just transmit the information in order to please the polical and financial élite that controls it. For that, it distorts facts, produces versions, disconnects events of its context, hides details. It spreads the conformism. Doing so, it molds perceptions, defines life styles, builts and supports the paradigms that allow the maintenance of the status quo.

Edition # 9 - december, 2003.

This way, it’s possilbe to observe a deep distortion of the media function. Insted of the ethical communication, that helps the social development, there is a communication that leads only and exclusively to the profit, although many times dissimulated by superficial campaigns that stimulate the lowest kind of charity that only consoles, conforms and humiliates, without trying to question the increasing social difference.

For all that, we have lost confidence in the mass media

The objective of the mass media should be democratize the knowledge, educate, investigate and denouce corruption. Nevertheless, nowadays it is becoming more and more difficult to find such qualities in mass media, each time more submitted to the control of corporations that place profit above all values of life.

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