blems maintains that social issues like poverty, prejudice, and political disenfranchisement arise from competing interests of different social groups as they vie for resources. The media, aside from the Internet, is currently owned, manipulated, and controlled by a handful of wealthy interests who perpetuate the values, norms, and beliefs that insure their own interests through the media. FOX News primarily became a supporter of President Bush in his reelection bid, as opposed to an unbiased source of critical information for voters to help in political decision-making. Schuler (p. 2) warns that those who view the Internet as being able to transcend this process may not recognize the future of the Internet may be quite similar to other current forms of communications media, ôThere is a large number of powerful and resource
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