@GOODEMPIRE

Where specifically you see error?

@GOODEMPIRE

Yep. I just looked at the thirt part (I mean with number 3), and couldn't get your notice.

NEWS is defined as anything that interests people.

I laughted here.

And what about the independence of journalists? That's something drilled into every Journalism student on the planet and is why you have executions of journalists in places like Mexico. You can't just pretend these things don't exist to fit a conspiracy narrative.

Independence from whom? All journalists I know (including, and especially, western ones) are absolutely dependent guys. Most of their life they obey the orders, as in army, as they are, in reality, an informational army doing their job.

@Mihuel

No I can't.

There is simply no accounting for human taste

No one is accounting anything. They are forming it.
Your whole model of the world around you is formed in your head.
If you listen and watch media for years you make the certain model.
Generally, it is their goal.
In any talk with people who watched media owned by corporations above you can quickly catch same words, same logic and same approaches. Yet all of them declare that they "independently" got to this opinion.

Hollywood can't even predict it, how else to explain JOHN CARTER? Why does Kim Kardashian dominate the media?

I really suggest to read something how Hollywood and its financing works. And how random it can be :-)

Kim Kardashian. LOL. You presented yourself best example of my point. How you can feed the people by bullshit for years if you control media.

I really suggest to read something how Hollywood and its financing works. And how random it can be :-)

Trust, I've read many account of adventure in film financing. Many Hollywood feature films fail. That's a fact. Or is there a mysterious off the books elite that actually profits from box office failures?

Human taste is random. Hollywood bases investments on what people like or what they think they will like. They can focus group things but ultimately it's human taste. You cannot make people drink and enjoy sour milk.

If you listen and watch media for years you make the certain model.

As I've said, my model is that the world is random, no real model at all. You are the one with the tight narrative in your head who makes news events confirm the model.

The best infographic I could find that represents the media is this one.

Human taste is extremely far from random.

I concede this, but we are obviously a long way from the ability to predict it with any accuracy. JOHN CARTER. GIGLI. 13th WARRIOR

Or perhaps you have some evidence that Hollywood intentionally makes box office bombs?

I can't believe the media is any sort of conspiracy - they're not that organised

Guys, you so like word "conspiracy". I am sure you can guess where you got the idea to use it in inappropriate places? I also like to see "not that organised" examples. May be 8/8 some of your mass media somehow had different position? May be they even called mr. president the criminal who must be prosecuted for that he done in Libya? No? How can it be? In this democratic(tm) and "we fight for freedom" companies? No, of course it is just completely independent positions that somehow always match.

My greatest hope, though, is that we can be liberated from the stranglehold of these big media companies, so we can freely produce as well as consume - but that might just be a dream!

Yep, it is just a dream. In current system.

@brianluce , I'll have to agree with @Vitaliy_Kiselev here, as I subscribe to a would-be Marxist understanding of how objective material forces produce culture and cultural artefacts. Taste is produced. Culture is produced. Start by reading some Karl Marx (it will be good for you. Coppola is doing it, and many other clever people read him too.) then graduate to more complex philosophers and social scientists. This is not a "Conspiracy Theory", this is what is known as Critical Theory. To put it in simple words, first they dumb you down, then they shape your opinion, then they ask your opinion -- conduct polls and invite you to participate in ritualistic voting for the puppet on the left or the puppet on the right. It's a closed logical loop - a tautology. And the most obscene thing is that they call it "Democracy", which is an insult to the principle.

The Universe may be "random". Hollywood most definitely is not - that's just not how Kapital works - that's not it's logic.

As to why Kim Kardashian dominates? ;D Ha-HA-HA I'll have to be more playful on this one .... cause she's a sexy foxy smoking-hot Armenian chick - but you can go to Armenia and find entire cities filled with chicks far hoter than Kim, the only "drawback" (or maybe advantage) is that they're not sluts like Kim Kardashian.

good quote from Man on Fire movie:

Fuentes: You know, I-I'm a professional.
Creasy: That's what everybody keeps saying. "I'm just a professional". Everybody keeps saying that to me. "I'm just a professional", "I'm just a professional". I'm getting sick and tired of hearing that.

This is exactly about media and journalists. Some of them, being criminal gang, kill with words. They sow lies and reap deaths. But if something happens to them during their work... They are just professionals. Yeah, yeah.

Where do you get your news? Many are getting it from Twitter since no one trusts big media. How about AJ?