Opinion: Is the media's role being affected by lack of money?

Posted by Lauren Drablier on September 12, 2008 at 3:13 PM

According to a panel of journalists at a National Press Conference, news agencies now in financial turmoil are no longer pushing for access to information like they used to.

"The media seems less and less willing to fight back and to challenge government authority in a legal sense," said Brian Maass, who leads the investigative team at Denver's CBS 4.

The (US) government is putting up more restrictions on information because "they know its expensive to sue and the news media don't have a lot of money." Which raises the question as to where the news business is going and how it will continue to protect its values.

Source: Marketwatch

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