{"id":278,"date":"2005-10-09T16:32:38","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T23:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2005-12-21T22:59:49","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T06:59:49","slug":"consumer-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/09\/consumer-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was at Valley Fair Mall<\/a>, a trendy mall in the area, when I saw the logo of Clear Channel<\/a> on one of the mall’s floor maps. Clear Channel controls a good number of radio and TV stations in the United States. And now, to my amazement, it also owns shopping malls. <\/p>\n

Clear Channel is a conservative-run organization, kind of like Fox News. Media companies like them are especially dangerous because of their projected illusion to its audience as “fair and unbiased” choice of news sources. But in fact, they practice censorship and political biases so obviously that the practice just goes over the head of the American general public.<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago, Brian<\/a> convinced me that consumers have a choice of where they spend their money. If the consumer doesn’t believe in the practice of a certain corporation, he has the option of not giving them any business. My argument was, “right, they are really going to change because I refuse to give them my drop-in-the-bucket dollar.” But deep down, I know he’s right. It may not make a big difference individually, but at least I am not supporting an organization that does things against my moral fiber.<\/p>\n

No more shopping at Valley Fair Mall then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was at Valley Fair Mall, a trendy mall in the area, when I saw the logo of Clear Channel on one of the mall’s floor maps. Clear Channel controls a good number of radio and TV stations in the United States. And now, to my amazement, it also owns shopping malls. Clear Channel is … Continue reading “Consumer Choices”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-logo","category-society-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-4u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}