NODE 4aefeb5aRe: Spamming
Vipul Ved Prakash <vipul@pobox.com>Sun, 25 Aug 1996 08:09:54 +0800
> The advertizers in printed & broadcast media exercise a great deal of control
> over the content. E.g., a magazine that gets revenues from tobacco ads isn't
> likely to run a story about tobacco companies trying to addict kids. That's
> why you see more anti-tobacco content in broadcast media (who can't run
> tobacco ads) than in printed media. (And there are cross-ownership
> restrictions.)
This can be true to certain extent. But if the mag doesn't maintain
objectivity, it will kill itself slowly. Same is true of broadcast media.
Vipul