While it's interesting to find this story on a news site, I found this article entitled Oscar-winner Dreyfuss campaigns against "shaped news" quite interesting. It mirrors thoughts that I have been having for a while.

I've been thinking that our opinions are often shaped by the media in that they do not report news from a position of neutrality. It makes me wonder who is "paying" for this to happen. Surely, those companies that have enough money are shaping the face of the news.

Take for example, the whole "weapons of mass destruction" that they said they were going to find in Iraq which swayed peoples' opinions of the invasion there. In hindsight, had people known the truth, the rage that developed which led to support of an American invasion and subsequent war would have probably been defused. All of the "instant" non-neutral reporting by the media assisted in this situation.

Anyway, I hope that you read the article. That Richard Dreyfuss is a mighty interesting individual...