{"id":1151,"date":"2014-11-06T08:51:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T13:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:51:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T13:51:46","slug":"when-is-a-corporate-media-group-too-powerful-global-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"When Is a Corporate Media Group Too Powerful? \u2014 Global Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalissues.org\/news\/2014\/11\/05\/20268\">When Is a Corporate Media Group Too Powerful? \u2014 Global Issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"by-line\" style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 1.68em 0px 1.68em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">SAN JUAN, Nov 05 (IPS) &#8211; A multi-million-dollar grant from a major media conglomerate to a communications school here has been hailed by some as a shining example of corporate philanthropy working to improve the quality of journalism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ips-feature-image\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 540px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/Library\/2014\/11\/newsstand.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 1.68em 0px 1.68em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">But others view it as a worrisome case of undue influence of media corporations on the formation of journalists.3<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 1.68em 0px 1.68em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Last June\u00a0<a style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; color: #b40f11; border-width: 0px 0px 1px 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gfrmedia.com\/\">GFR Media<\/a>, Puerto Rico&#8217;s largest media company, gave a five-million-dollar grant to the\u00a0<a style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; color: #b40f11; border-width: 0px 0px 1px 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sagrado.edu\/\">Communications School of Universidad del Sagrado Coraz\u00f3n<\/a>\u00a0(USC), one of the country&#8217;s leading private universities. 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