Newsies

I've never really been what you would call a "blogger", and I'm not really sure what exactly I'm suppose to be blogging about so I hope this subject will do. Friday night I watched a Disney musical called Newsies with a few people from my dorm. The movie takes place in New York City during the summer of 1899. The main characters of the movie, the newsies, deliever news papers to the city in order to earn a living. However, the newsies soon lose their way of life when the owners of all the major papers decide to raise the price on papers to earn themselves some unnessisary extra cash. In an attempt to stop this injustice all the newsies of the city decide to go on strike. They hold protest rallies and form picket lines, but their attempts are all but usless because none of the papers will report on the strike. One of the main characters then states that the protest rally never happened, because if it isn't in the papers then it doesn't exsist. This made me realize exactly how dependent we are on the media, and how easily it can be manipulated to serve the best intrest of only one person or group instead of the general public like it was meant to do. Today we rely on it even more than it we did back then, and it is still true that if we don't see something on the news, hear it on the radio, or read it in the papers then it doesn't exist for us. So what happens today if the owner of ABC or CNN decide that it would profit them more to not report a story?