Interesting view on the flip side of business news: (Article): "One of the dominant yet little-remarked-upon shifts in the media landscape over the past couple of decades has been the enormous upsurge in business news as general news. A result is that tens of millions of low-income people are seeing constant news stories about challenges and opportunities for well-to-do investors."

The article presents a view of an important problem. The social economic changes within what is now the corporate media is not examined closely as to how that contributes to the situation. The consolidation of media under the control of large corporations run by rich businessmen who insert their world view of unrestrained capitalism would seem an important part of this topic. Independent editors and writers serving the public have become a rarity.

Article is op/ed material, not reporting, and a good editorial at that. It brings up a topic that is too little discussed in today's media. However, the editorial misses the opportunity to point out that in the past, unions often had their own newspapers and these newspapers gained wide distribution. The current decline in public confidence in the corporate media would seem to present the unions with a renewed opportunity to gain entry in this area. If not newspapers, unions could ... More »

Article is op/ed material, not reporting, with appealing conclusions, but a paucity of supporting facts and information