We can definitely
declare that the AEM does not intend to abolish the media. In fact,
there will probably be more people working within the media, and many
more people gaining access to broadcasting and publications than ever
before. While the
media will retain its autonomy; as with the culture in general, we
intend to improve media services as well as make them more
professional. And because they will be more professional, nobody
within the Australian media will ever be given an assignment to spy on
celebrities, and yes, we do make it illegal for the media to do so. And
if someone decided to do it on their own, we won’t be presenting it in any
of our broadcasts or publications. Many things in our media
today and in society, including spying on celebrities, stem from the individual’s quest
for money. When one cannot earn big money by doing so, most people will tend to lose their motivation.
Of course, some things will change.
Currently, almost all programs, including the news and current affairs
programs, are competing for ratings. And higher rating are sort because
higher ratings means bigger audiences, which means that advertisers
are more willing to pay higher prices to advertise during these
programs. So, in an attempt to gain advertisers, news and current
affairs programmers tend to report on the types of stories that have successfully
seduced audiences in the past. And the private lives of famous people
has become one of those types of stories. In the AEM's Egalitarian society, we
rarely try to sell you anything, including the programs themselves,
including news and current affairs programs. As such you are likely to
get real and un-sensationalised news and current affairs programming.
Further, many of the popular current affairs stories, such as
pensioners and other innocent people being ripped off by insurance
companies, banks, or some scam artist; shoddy builders; tenants and landlords
from hell, etc, no longer occur within the AEM's Egalitarian society.
Also, in our contemporary democratic-capitalist society, news and
current affairs programs virtually limit their coverage of political
issues to the viewpoints of the two major political parties and perhaps
some other affected group. We hope to allow all viewpoints to be aired
in our news and current affairs programs. Also, because the state runs
all businesses and services, and makes all laws and policies, current
affairs programs may tend to focus mainly on what the government
is doing and those people challenging what the government is doing.
It cannot be forgotten that the media is
a powerful institution: so powerful that it can harass governments and
companies and succeed in having them change their rulings or policies:
so powerful that they shape our culture to an extraordinary extent. And
it cannot be forgotten that within our capitalist society, media and
broadcasting companies are another self-interest group fighting to make
as big as profit as they can. Therefore, in our capitalist society,
broadcasting companies are one of the major driving forces supporting
and institutionalising capitalism, and one of the major driving forces
in shaping the culture in general. And powerful media magnates are known
to support certain political organisations. As such, we always have
reason to distrust media companies' impartiality when reporting on
political issues, and we never get to even know about the viewpoints of
people the media doesn't support, which is why you never hear from any
Egalitarianists. We not only intend to provide a broader coverage of
every issue, we actually provide programs that are specifically designed
to allow people to have their say so that they can attempt to gain public support.
