It's a legal fiction. It's nonsense. A "corporation" is just a make-believe game, whereby personal responsibility for one's actions is deflected to an anonymous bank account or business office.
All influence is bias. Whether it's the boss who threatens to fire a journalist for covering a story that criticizes Christianity, or an IMC editor who deletes a story because it runs against liberal ideology.
To be truly an independent media center, all ideological restraints must be removed. Otherwise, all you've done is cut yourself off from funding.
"Corporations" are just a boogieman. I know people who have "incorporated". It's just a piece of paper, and a different set of forms come tax-time.
People, are the problem. People with an agenda. People who want to bury the truth when it doesn't support their cause. People who are willing to lie, ommit, twist, and misrepresent. Or people who are so married to an idea that they don't see the world clearly, and try to present that false reality to us as truth.
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Date Edited: 27 Feb 2005 03:12:43 PM
It's a legal fiction. It's nonsense. A "corporation" is just a make-believe game, whereby personal responsibility for one's actions is deflected to an anonymous bank account or business office.
All influence is bias. Whether it's the boss who threatens to fire a journalist for covering a story that criticizes Christianity, or an IMC editor who deletes a story because it runs against liberal ideology.
To be truly an independent media center, all ideological restraints must be removed. Otherwise, all you've done is cut yourself off from funding.
"Corporations" are just a boogieman. I know people who have "incorporated". It's just a piece of paper, and a different set of forms come tax-time.
People, are the problem. People with an agenda. People who want to bury the truth when it doesn't support their cause. People who are willing to lie, ommit, twist, and misrepresent. Or people who are so married to an idea that they don't see the world clearly, and try to present that false reality to us as truth.
People like those that run Fox and CNN.
And people like those that run the IMC.
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