The Importance of Independent Media
Introduction: Media and politics have become more intertwined than ever. Add some corporate greed to the mix and you have a three-headed apparatus that blends "news" and information, business and money, and political games all broadcast live into your living room at the flick of a switch. There is so much money and influence floating around in all mainstream media that it makes it impossible to fully trust anything you hear. Newer technologies, like social media and the internet as a whole, have only exasperated the problem. Media companies can tweet out an inflammatory headline, only to correct themselves in the replies and leave the original, misleading post intact. This has made grassroots, independent media more important than ever before, especially for people that are pro-2nd amendment. I'm going to go a bit into some of the issues that I see with mainstream media corporations, some changes that you can make to negate these issues, and lastly, provide you some of m...