News Media Promotes America’s Most Wanted
It amazes me how the news media promotes America’s Most Wanted. The owners of Fox also own a lot of newspapers, tv stations, and radio stations. Many huge media companies want more comnsolidation of the media where they can own as many of the news sources people have access to as possible. The FCC has been on their side.
Whenever you allow a large company to own all the news that people listen to or a large percentage of it, you destroy the legitimacy of the news. America’s Most Wanted gets biased news reporting by the very same news organizations that are also owned by the same company that makes money if AMW is popular.
Whenever a fugitive is captured anywhere who also has been profiled on America’s Most Wanted, the media implies that AMW had something to do with that by including lines like “America’s Most Wanted Fugitive Captured” or “Fugitive who Appeared on America’s Most Wanted Captured”.
Even if AMW had absolutely nothing to do with the lead that led to the capture of the wanted fugitive, their name goes into the story. It appears that whenever a major fugitive is captured the media bosses have told reporters to research to see if they have ever been on America’s Most Wanted’s TV show and if so, make sure their name is included in the story.
If I posted every single wanted fugitive in America on this blog, can I get credit anytime they are captured? Even if no one who read this blog actually called in a tip?
Law Enforcement works very hard and they deserve the credit when they capture a wanted fugitive due to their own work. America’s Most wanted is trademarked as an “ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION SHOW” and it is exactly that.
Do they do a good job by putting these faces on tv? Yes they do. Do wanted fugitives ever get captured because America’s Most Wanted puts their face on tv? Yes they do. And they deserve the credit every time that happens.
But America’s Most Wanted and the NCMEC have one thing in common. AMW puts a lot of fugitive’s faces on TV and takes credit every time one of them is captured whether it was due to their tv show or not.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children puts all missing children on their website and anytime one is found by law enforcement, the NCMEC adds that child to the list of missing children “found” on their website. At least in the past, they had put things like more than 85,000 children recovered.
Even though they had nothing to do with finding 84,999 of them. But the American tv viewer and consumer is happy that the government gives them money because they SAY they help find missing children.
They get 40 million dollars per year and have no national search team for missing children. That should tell you enough about that right off the bat.
Back to the media conglomerates owning most of the news we see, hear, and read. it allows these companies to use those news sources to slant what people hear any direction they want. They can influence elections, promote tv shows, and push agendas by making it sound like news VS sounding like the promotion it is.
Allowing big media companies to buy up smaller newspapers, tv shows, and radio stations, you are allowing these companies to usurp democracy by subliminally planting things in news stories to make people believe it’s real.
Wake up and write your congessman, your senator, and the FCC. Most of all, stop believing everything you read just because they label it “news”.
Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
Most Wanted Fugitives Blog
