Title: Virtual objectivity
Description: Videodisc release of the 1996 production.

Professor Noam Chomsky discusses the role of the increasing corporatization of the global mass media and evaluates the concept of journalistic "objectivity" in that context. Janos Horvat, notes that television news in America is show business. Edward Bishop says the media is not separate from society but reflects society. Klotzer and bishop point out that Americans do not cover issues from the "left" point of view as do the Europeans. The video also describes the role of CNN, with its clobal point of view and compares it to the more insular network television in the United States.
Subjects: Television broadcasting of news, Objectivity, Political aspects, Broadcast journalism, Journalism, Foreign news, Television broadcasting