Corporate control drives the media not to generate impartial coverage, analysis or debate but simply to generate profits. As a result investigative journalism and intelligent news reporting have virtually been eliminated. We get "Good vs Evil" and "Which side are you on? Are you with us or the Terrorists?", everything is black and white. Good news reporting is about explaining the grey areas but the corporate media is unable or unwilling to do so. It takes too long, it's too expensive and it doesn't deliver profits in the same way as lifestyle programmes or gameshows, (product placement, throw that away - buy this, advertising revenue). There's also a good chance it could damage corporate interests, it could point towards corporate or state crimes they would rather ignore, it could question accepted history or disprove the 'official line' which they have been repeating incessantly over and over again as fact, when in fact it is lies and propaganda.

What we get are sound bites, the mouthing of slogans and accepted 'truths'. If we take media coverage of US foreign policy as an example, we get "the US defends freedom" and "the US is beacon of democracy". Whereas if you say, rightly, that the US has been for a long time, a major supporter of international terrorism and a major perpetrator of state terrorism, then the reaction is, "What?" You need time to explain that and you don't get it in the corporate media. You're dismissed as 'mad' or a 'loony leftie'. You need time to explain the CIA training death squads in Central America, to explain the CIA backed coups which have overthrown legitimate democratic governments, the vicious dictators the US has installed and supported, the UN resolutions the US has vetoed, time to explain the US corporate interests behind the decisions to invade the likes of Afghanistan and Iraq. You need to provide the facts when questioning accepted 'truths' or the 'official line'. The mainstream 'news' doesn't allow the time required for real journalism. Power To The People will show you how to seek it out for yourself.

Power To The People will also show you how to become the media yourself, how to cause a nuisance to the propaganda machine and just maybe, how to Hold 'Em To Account!